We Need to Start Expecting Mid-Level Sprouts to Play Better

[Lunalepsy]

The idea of dodging mechanics (circles, squares, flashy lights, etc.) is just bad. They should remove them altogether and go back to old-school gaming where skills matter.

[Mimilu]

Meh, normal content is too easy for me to care about it.
Don't even care about single pulls. What's it gonna do to me beside losing ten more minutes lmao.

It's not single pulling that's the problem, it's tanks that do wall-to-wall pulls but then don't use any of their mitigation cooldowns, leaving the healer to babysit them. ヾ( •́д•̀ ; )ﾉ

[TheMightyMollusk]

The idea of dodging mechanics (circles, squares, flashy lights, etc.) is just bad. They should remove them altogether and go back to old-school gaming where skills matter.

You mean when you just ran face-first into a boss a few dozen times until you memorized the patterns? Where most of those patterns were.....circles, squares, and flashy lights?

[Mimilu]

You mean when you just ran face-first into a boss a few dozen times until you memorized the patterns? Where most of those patterns were.....circles, squares, and flashy lights?

I think they mean going back to being turn-based and standing in one place with a party of 3-5. (✿´ ꒳ ` )

[Neoyoshi]

@OP: Try not to take this as criticism, but you might be overthinking this.

[Supersnow845]

@OP: Try not to take this as criticism, but you might be overthinking this.

Or and hear me out, this dude was sandbagging and expecting tanks to know how to use mitigation should be expected in level 86 content

[technole]

The idea of dodging mechanics (circles, squares, flashy lights, etc.) is just bad. They should remove them altogether and go back to old-school gaming where skills matter.

Balmung person saying dodging mechanics is just bad.

Irony.

[TaleraRistain]

However, it is unfair to force me to put in two people's worth of effort because one of our teammates is choosing not to carry their own weight.

No it's not. This is the PUG healer experience. Sometimes we have to be the glue that holds the party together so they can get their jobs done. That's why we are a support role. Is it every fight? No. It is even most fights? No. It happens, and the more resistant you are to stepping up and being what your party needs you to be, the more trouble that you're going to have because no party makeup is ever the same. There is a solution. If you want a party that is always the same exacting standards with no surprises, use premade groups. Use PF to find likeminded individuals if you don't have enough friends. Then you can kick them or bail on them as you want to. Like Striker44 said. Sometimes the responsibility is on our shoulders. It's not fair, but it's the way things are as a PUG healer.

[Mimilu]

There is a solution. If you want a party that is always the same exacting standards with no surprises, use premade groups. Use PF to find likeminded individuals if you don't have enough friends. Then you can kick them or bail on them as you want to. Like Striker44 said. Sometimes the responsibility is on our shoulders. It's not fair, but it's the way things are as a PUG healer.

Counter-solution: If you want to tank but not even do the bare-minimum, go play with trusts. That way, no one will expect anything from you.٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و

[Supersnow845]

No it's not. This is the PUG healer experience. Sometimes we have to be the glue that holds the party together so they can get their jobs done. That's why we are a support role. Is it every fight? No. It is even most fights? No. It happens, and the more resistant you are to stepping up and being what your party needs you to be, the more trouble that you're going to have because no party makeup is ever the same. There is a solution. If you want a party that is always the same exacting standards with no surprises, use premade groups. Use PF to find likeminded individuals if you don't have enough friends. Then you can kick them or bail on them as you want to. Like Striker44 said. Sometimes the responsibility is on our shoulders. It's not fair, but it's the way things are as a PUG healer.

You have such a warped view of what “support” means, support means your main contribution to the party is not damage, it’s not “play your role and someone else’s who doesn’t want to properly contribute to the group”

If they don’t want to play their job at an absolute baseline level they can go play with trusts, not make me play their role for them