We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

[Magic-Mal]

The problem is we, as a community, permit people in terrible gear because it's "mean" to kick someone with a level 50 weapon in Mettle or the autoattacking black mage in Doma Castle.

It's our fault.

Exactly, it should be FFXIV that teaches the players the most basic things. The game's only attempt at teaching anything is Hall of Novice and it only teaches extremely basic group dungeon mechanics. It doesn't go into anything about the stat weights for STR or DEX, it doesn't tell you about the best materia for your class/job, it doesn't tell you about healing/Regen aggro, it doesn't even help with a single mechanic to be found in the game. Not even in the slightest. FFXIV teaches the player absolutely nothing. I blame not only the player, but FFXIV for it's lack of teaching of the actual game. And no the Novice Network and random 500 person FCs aren't an excuse for the devs to be lazy about it.

And if people are never told what's wrong by the players early on in the game, they can easily never realize it until many dungeons later.