Final Fantasy XIV and a Culture of Enabling

[SturmChurro]

I would say it is you in some part. But then, I am someone who is firm in the belief that a tank should find an equilibrium of pulling that both the tank and healer are satisfied with. Read: Communicate and get clear what your healer can handle, it's called teamwork.

Otherwise..

https://twitter.com/Merryweatherey/s...73816344530945

A healer choosing to not heal a tank is a reportable, and bannable offense actually. I even remember someone in the TfDF thread saying they got banned for it!

[Lanadra]

A healer choosing to not heal a tank is a reportable, and bannable offense actually. I even remember someone in the TfDF thread saying they got banned for it!

The comic link was meant as a light hearted joke. The point was and is that you should ideally communicate and work with a healer to ensure the tanking part of the dungeon goes smoothly.. as opposed to pulling too much, overtaxing the healer, seeing half your party dead and going: ''*shrug* I did my job, it wasn't me.'' Because quite clearly.. if half the party is dead.. something went wrong and you're most certainly not automatically exempt just because your experience is that it normally goes well.

[SturmChurro]

The comic link was meant as a light hearted joke. The point was and is that you should ideally communicate and work with a healer to ensure the tanking part of the dungeon goes smoothly.. as opposed to pulling too much, overtaxing the healer, seeing half your party dead and going: ''*shrug* I did my job, it wasn't me.'' Because quite clearly.. if half the party is dead.. something went wrong and you're most certainly not automatically exempt just because your experience is that it normally goes well.

I know. I put an emoji. A player can be banned for it though! Seriously.

It is pretty obvious.. it's the other players not capable of contributing for large pulls. Could be choosing to not play at an adequate level, or being inexperienced. The specific reasons for a wipe on a pull is: Adds are taking forever to die, due to low DPS/little to no AOE usage. The healer can't keep up due to the length of pulls, healer is simply inexperienced, undergeared player(s), player dying in avoidable damage, etc. None of it my fault.

Eh, come to think of it, I don't really feel like maintaining this argument. Already had it several times in the TfDF thread. I've been a little hyperbolic here this morning, I'll admit. Still, large pulls really aren't that daunting, if you have a group of players playing at even a adequate level. I'll pull small if I need to, I just prefer not to, but wipes do make a duty last longer than pulling small. Usually...

[KizuyaKatogami]

Being able to handle wall to wall pulls is like, the minimum you can do as a dps,tank, or healer. That really is not asking for all that much. Again that requires knowing your job which i would hope people would know by stormblood/shadowbringers and even heavensward honestly but i know some jobs can kind of change drastically in that transition so i’m a bit lenient.