Dear WoW refugees and returning players

[Medorii]

when i'm in major cities i like to only target myself so i dont have to focus on the casuals... maybe you should try this approach, mr drakon

[Hayden]

Oh dear, here we go proving that old myth that the FFXIV player base is actually kind and helpdul wrong, and throwing it right out the window.

Because your precious time is too valuable to explain simple mechanics to a new player, and suffer through a wipe or two.

Far be it for us Peons to get in your way, oh high and mighty one

[Krotoan]

Oh dear, here we go proving that old myth that the FFXIV player base is actually kind and helpdul wrong, and throwing it right out the window.

Because your precious time is too valuable to explain simple mechanics to a new player, and suffer through a wipe or two.

Far be it for us Peons to get in your way, oh high and mighty one

.. it's like one troll. Maybe don't lump all of us (you're part of it too) in with them?

[Arazehl]

Dear New FFXIV Players:

Even though you pay your subscription fees, I deem my existence to be superior to yours and request that you play the game the way I say.

Signed,
FFXIV Elitist

/s

Ok I need not read anything else on this topic. This made me spit my drink out and laugh for 15 minutes. You hit a homerun!

[lalin]

i hate posts like this ... maybe don't add (practice) to your pf and say that you want exp players instead ?? or nvm i've entered a few ((practice)) parties where they expect you to know the entire fight ..
also isn't this why the mentor system exist in the first place ?

[Darkobra]

World of Warcraft roasts, casual player taunts and the fastest way to vote kick! All this and more coming up on: Mentors Who Don't Want To Do The Job.

[Renka777]

no one is obviously gonna follow op request
i'm also pissed seing all thoses newbie healer stand here doing nothing in lvl 81+ content , newbies tanks still not knowing how mitigation works and other newbies failing multiple time in dungeon etc, especially vs the last boss of the 87 dungeon

the best way to deal with it is to simply go with trust and my leveling experience have been improved a tons since, literally night and day

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

I use Trust exclusively on my alt. Course she's not doing all content either, that's the plan for my current main to make up for skipping so much in the past.

[Shurrikhan]

That's why WoW was so toxic though, because everybody expected you to know a dungeon inside, out, backwards and sideways before you even did it for the first time. I for one am happy to learn alongside new players and help them figure things out. Obviously there's a line to be drawn about griefing but I think you should be able to go in blind without being ridiculed and bullied for it.

Maybe by the time one were doing it on the 3rd level of difficulty (Mythic 0), but after dungeon-leveling some dozen alts I still have yet to see more than a few people get offended over someone in their party not knowing the intricacies of a dungeon that they may have been seeing for the first time, but even that was mostly because the someone in question was attempting to run through everything with blinders on, at the party's expense. (Once in Halls of Atonement, needlessly pulling literally everything despite being asked to follow, once in Tirna, by repeatedly running into maze walls and sending everyone back to the checkpoint despite being asked to follow the clues, and once in Slag Mines for having taken the long way around when the rest of the party had already started down the normal path.)

Do they get pissed at people pulling patrols that were long since visible? Sure. For never interrupting casts? Yep. For aiming cleaves into the party? Of course. For standing in telegraphed AoEs? Yes. But that's precisely because they're far from new or intricate concepts. The basic expectation for people new to a dungeon is to follow the others' lead and not forget the basics.

(If the remaining four people explain, target-mark, and waypoint exactly what you should do after your having repeatedly failed a mechanic despite earlier guidance, they will expect that you follow said advice or at least not die far enough away not to PK them, though, toxic as that may be.)

Frankly, one's at least likely to pick up that kind of flak here as there. It's not so different a boogieman.

[AtlasS]

Ah yes, the only other game to exist besides FFXIV, WoW.