How to Get the Best Weapon and Armor

[Colt47]

You realize you're basically the embodiment of the NA/EU mindset and opposite of the JP mindset, who are only able to queue for endgame content in DF because it's their culture to do their best to contribute to the team before queuing, where NA/EU can't use the DF because it's our culture to feel entitled to carries and do nothing for the team if we find it fun, thus rendering many endgame DF runs impossible to clear. So JP are actually the "tryhards" as you like to put it and the people setting ilv requirements over here are the handful with the JP mindset of trying to ensure team contribution. JP won't be openly toxic, but actually keep public blacklists for players like yourself who join without preparation and drag a group down but don't care. Just saying

Also doesn't the DF provide tools to filter what part of the fight one is working on? That's another problem with the NA pugging is that people will just put "doing second half of the fight" and you get people who are not that far yet joining.

[Rilifane]

Also doesn't the DF provide tools to filter what part of the fight one is working on? That's another problem with the NA pugging is that people will just put "doing second half of the fight" and you get people who are not that far yet joining.

Not just in DF but also PF.
Many people hop into PFs that want to practice specific mechanics although they have only seen that mechanic once somewhere with lots of deaths and don't play the prior mechanics clean enough to reliably reach that part. If a PF states "tower practice" for e9s you're almost guaranteed to see lots of seeds placed too far centre and blocking the way for breaking tethers, people running to the wrong side on WA/ AA or tanks staying too close with their point-blank and killing a healer stack, people locking others during platform and killing them during side cleave etc. before even seeing towers once. Although that was the mechanic the party was supposed to practice.
JP has the general rule of "3 wipes = disband", so if you didn't reach that mechanic within 3 pulls, you need to queue again and if someone specific was at fault for the wipes, they'll get added to the unofficial blacklists in most cases. Although some PFs here disband really fast aswell, at least on Light most people are more lenient towards mistakes on earlier mechanics, joke about warm up and try to stick together for longer. I've seen practice parties stay together for several hours although they rarely reached the part they wanted to practice.
Multiple floor weekly reclear parties are more strict and if someone keeps failing something, they get kicked and replaced within a few pulls.