Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
The time to replace a tank is greatly overblown on these forums, and if more people knew this a lot of tanks would take a hit to their ego. I've only had difficulty replacing one of my tanks once, and that was in Castrum Abania. It's often difficult to find replacements for that dungeon at 4am though.

Keep in mind join in progress takes priority over a new group formation, so you're getting priority if you need to replace a tank. That's from each of the roulettes, including mentor roulette.

Everywhere else, don't think twice about initiating a kick if they're causing trouble for a party; especially if you're a healer. You can play the "heal the samurai" minigame instead. Both you and the samurai will love it.
It probably changes from DC to DC because from my experience kicking a tank or an healer most of the times lead to a VERY long wait if ever, sometimes t's just better to drop and start queue again.

Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
You seem to enjoy misuse of "penalty." It's not a penalty to kick an obstinate tank; it is a penalty for the party to keep them around.

Thankfully the will of the group will always win out; it doesn't matter what bleeding heart policies Square puts in place or what they are percieved to implement. If the group decides they want to replace someone, that person will be replaced.

Square could go as far as to disable kicking entirely and you'd just see more people randomly going afk or offline to dodge and cause runs to collapse. You can't force people to want to play with you, and Square can't make that happen either.
The moment one enters duty roulettes they know they could find every kind of player.

That tank was doing his job. They wanted something different and specific, they could've even put up a PF, ask a friend or go tank themselves.
Why they didn't, I wonder? Maybe because there was no tank available.

And I’m very sorry but your answer just spur too much stupidity: people would prefer to go AFK instead of complete the dungeon they queued for in duty roulettes, with a tank doing normal pulls, that would take at worse a few minutes more? Wasting what, like 15 minutes instead of 3. Why?

It just sounds to me that you took it too personal and based that comment on your personal experience which is not the exact same thing happened in this case.