A good old boyish cott

[Maeka]

Has definitely been my experience. I'd still rather deal with a bad healer rather than being stuck with it, but I've noticed almost every healer I've gotten as a GNB has been anywhere between barely passable to downright awful. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well.

Assuming you are talking about Duty Finder, as long as people aren't dying, maybe one shouldn't be so picky?

I don't know about anybody else, but personally when I Q up for Duty Finder, and we simply get through the dungeon without people dying, I'm happy with that. What I hate are tanks who overpull and wipe the group when they aren't geared to do such overpulling (or they don't use their mitigation buttons properly), or worse when a tank overpulls and then proceeds to try that very same pull again but with the healer's stuff on cooldown thinking that is somehow going to work, or when healers decide to just let people drop dead because they were too busy spamming their DPS spell, or what-not.

But if we get through a dungeon and the healer and tank ensure there are no wipes, I'm happy. Heck, I'm happy even if we do wipe once or twice, provided such wipe was for a reasonable reason. Accidents can happen, I'm not one of those spoiled brats who drop group at the first wipe. I'm not a quitter like some people I've seen in duty finder who drop group if there's one wipe. Or worse, somebody who drops group if they see newbie bonus in a trial.

I think people are just plain getting spoiled and they want Savage-level performance out of Non-Savage players which make up the vast majority of the playerbase and they gripe, grumble, and groan because your average player just doesn't play at that level. It's why I have really gotten this dislike towards many of the vocal savage players who are quick to look down their nose at the common player. Yeah, sorry I'm not top percentile. But I don't let my groups wipe either, under normal circumstances.

It's attitudes like this that really annoy me, when people say "almost every healer .... has been between barely passable to downright awful". That's complete hyperbole, because I have seen plenty of healers in my duty finder who do just fine and not let the groups wipe. But then I suppose if "downright awful" means being anything less than the top 10% on FFLogs, then.... *shrug* Maybe you should just stick to only doing Roulettes with your FC, that way the rest of us wouldn't have to deal with attitudes like this. Sounds like it'd be a win-win for everybody involved, to be honest.

One can have the biggest Seattle Space Needle nose in the world, but as long as it's in Seattle far away from where I can see it, then I don't care. But if you stick that thing in my backyard, then I care.

And I love it when people talk like "Oh, the GOOD players like US are leaving the game because of crappy players like YOU" .... well, you know what? Go ahead. The rest of us, the majority, will continue to happily play while the vocal minority ragequits. Don't act like you're God's Gift to FFXIV. That makes you look very self-entitled and it's rather unbecoming.