Remove role action Rescue : only a tool for trolling and poor gameplay

[SturmChurro]

Well, yes. Also the one that went on for waaaaaay too many pages about making an 'opt-out-of-Rescue' toggle, which I feel zero desire to go hunt up right now, but which I recall making some (rather impassioned) posts in along the lines of "if you're going to do that, just get rid of the ability entirely, because the idea of an opt-in toggle is far worse than just removing it".

I mean, I was half-joking about "why revive an ancient thread", but also half-serious about it; I've seen folks revive really old threads complaining about a thing, and folks will thus read many pages of multi-year-old posts, and then reply to them going "What are you talking about, <X> doesn't work that way!" without realizing the post they're replying to dates back to, say, Heavensward.

That said, I admit I'm genuinely mystified. Sometimes I write it off as being cultural differences between datacenters when folks say they only ever see it used for trolling, but you're on Primal with me -- heck, I know we've ended up in the same alliance raids before -- so I'm genuinely puzzled.

Sometimes I wonder if it's not just that people remember those instances more so it feels like the trolling happens more than anything else...

This one then?

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Healer-Rescue

I don't necessarily agree with a toggle or whatever, and haven't suggested that. I have merely vented about rescue recently. As you can see, I wasn't previously aware of these other threads.

I haven't even been complaining about it being used for trolling recently, as my posts outline. I have been saying people aren't using it well. I'm sure they have good intentions, but pulling me out of nothing, or pulling me into mechanics is the side effect. It's incredibly annoying. I vented about it in the "what things annoy you?" thread, and after I have had it happen to me more times. I decided to search for a prior thread on the subject and found this one. I don't see why this is such an issue. It's not my fault if people can't check the date of a post, and decide to reply to something old. For that matter, the subject of rescue being improperly used is still going on to this day!

I am not just remembering instances, I complained about it at the exact time it has happened to a friend in discord. I am not making anything up. I don't see how my experience is so unbelievable. I hardly have seen rescue used in the first place. Simply put, it has been happening often recently to me, and I was annoyed. It's ridiculous that I even have to explain myself.

[Packetdancer]

I am not just remembering instances, I complained about it at the exact time it has happened to a friend in discord. I am not making anything up. I don't see how my experience is so unbelievable. I hardly have seen rescue used in the first place. Simply put, it has been happening often recently to me, and I was annoyed. It's ridiculous that I even have to explain myself.

I should clarify I don't think anyone's making anything up, but I sometimes wonder whether the perceived prevalence of Rescue-trolling is indeed just perception, since people tend to remember annoyances far more than they do the average run. It sticks in the mind more and stands out more. I would be curious if people kept like a tally-sheet of each duty they ran and whether or not someone trolled with Rescue in it, whether in tallying the numbers up after a month the trolling/misuse of Rescue would truly be so endemic a problem as many of these threads make it out to be.

Also note that I'm not saying that you specifically are claiming it's endemic, Sturm, just that the bulk of these threads do make it out to be a veritable wave of constant misuse. That said, if it's enough of an annoyance that people perceive it as constant misuse, it's arguable how much that differs from if it were actually being misused that much; either way, people are unhappy with it.

Still, most of these threads are just complaining about it; what I'd be curious to see is whether folks have a good recommendation on what could replace it, to give me as a healer an option to keep folks from dying in those scenarios like the Crystal Tower raids -- or to grab a DPS who insists continually on greeding a mechanic and constantly eats floor. I don't care if that method is Rescue or something else, but I care that I have a method of some form to react to those scenarios.

(Ideally, a way which wouldn't be cheesed to the moon and back in savage content.)