Alliance Raids and players not waiting for Cutscene Watchers

[aveyond-dreams]

Crystal Tower raids = 10 minute max, cutscenes short and sweet

Every other alliance raid after that = frequent KOs due to instawipe mechanics, player performance varying so wildly that most people automatically drop if they get a raid that isn't CT in roulettes. If a group has wasted my time by dragging out the raid to the absurd degree as is often the case in duty finder, then they've lost the right for me to sit tight and let them watch cutscenes in that content.

It doesn't matter whether I'm a healer, tank, or dps, every role can survive a few hits from the boss until someone else inevitably decides to join in.

But do not worry, given the state of Duty Finder and lack of being able to farm for specific gear pieces in a consistent way from alliance raids have all but ensured I do not interact with that roulette in favor of running EW dungeons with trusts. You'd have to give MSQ-roulette amounts of rewards in order to get me to suffer through a typical df run of Puppet's Bunker or goodness forbid Tower of Paradigm's Breach.

So what you're saying is that it perfectly fine to ruin a first timer's experience by being impatient in a roulette where the purpose is to allow first timers to complete the content, including participating in the combat?
And yes, 1 person does get to hold up the others since you are receiving a bonus for there being a first timer in your raid. That's the trade off, or at least intended to be.
Just selfish IMO.

As long as the supposed first-timer doesn't turn a 20 minute run into an hour-long run, they can do whatever they want. But if the clock keeps ticking and we're getting nowhere, I'm pulling. If they can be selfish and queue in without having a clue how to survive the insta-KO mechs, then I can be selfish and pull the final boss early. No amount of appealing to my morality is going to solve the fact that those runs take far too long, and I have the right to do whatever it takes to get out of them faster.

The longest cutscene you'll be waiting for is 1-2 minutes, is 1-2 minutes of your time really that critical?

You completely underestimate how boring it is to sit there and do nothing for 1-2 minutes and how infuriating it can be to do so for a party that for the most part has not been carrying the weight evenly, so I'm going to go ahead and make up for lost time.