People who can't do AOE rotations in 70+ Content

[LianaThorne]

Probably because your healer was making up for whoever was lacking.

Combo of pure healer + 2 non aoe dps? That's going to be a 35m+ run. Running a Trust would be faster.

Debatable on the faster trusts thing. I would rather pull my hair out than run with trusts because even when I pull more packs over to Thanc or Graha, it's rolling a dice whether or not they'll just die after a few seconds because Urianger/Alphinaud decided to full stop in a poor spot and got smashed.

Meanwhile I can just queue for DF and 9/10 not have the healer or tank die while handling bigger packs/suffer to poor AI choices.

If it was set up that the DPS in trusts were actually doing their expected damage (single targets for days while I'm spamming my AoEs) + the AI was a bit smarter then trusts would probably be a lot more leaned upon than they are now.

[Tiramu]

How they want to play is irrelevant if they are being a burden

He is referring to tanks asking everyone to focus on the boss and ignore adds. This is sometimes possible and will clear a fight faster.

[Cach]

I was in a group for Expert Roulette the other day with a "non-AOE" DPS. It cost us all of 3 minutes. Barely the time worth a 300+ thread on the forum. Honestly, I see more time lost from random AFKs and disconnects than I do from parties with a non-AOE DPS. While it is inconvenient, the cost isn't much if the other 3 players do their job.

Eh... I mostly agree. I'm always a bit baffled and amused at the Karen-level hysterics when this particular kind of thread pops up.

I am excited to see what happens in a post savage dungeon world, however. This might get hilarious.

[FireMage]

Is the forums the place for you to make demands of other players. If it bothers you so much have you tried asking the person in the party to use them? After all your making the choice to do wall to wall pulls it not mandatory. Personally as long as it looks like other players are trying thats all i care about in roulettes. Its more frustrating to see people think that the trusts are for any player that dont meet their standard of play. When you play with random people you shouldnt have any expectation other then the trying.

If people were actually trying they would be properly playing

[Reinha]

I'd rather carry the worst player in the game through content as long as they're a decent human being over getting stuck in a group with a jerk regardless of how good a player they are.

Players who press more buttons to do less damage because they didn't read tooltips are jerks though.

[Themarvin]

If you queue using duty finder you should have zero expectations. Put your own group together so those of your ilk can stay together. I am sure the people in duty finder won't miss you.

In short you sound like one of these that try and fake themself through roulettes and the likes... there is expectations and if am not doing even basic AOE's you can be reported severe for obstruction as well.

[dspguy]

3 minutes here, 3 minutes there, and now you've spent a whole hour more on things that could've been done 3 minutes faster each run if everyone were to use AOE.
Also, the slower things die, the more pressure it is on tank and healer.

You are aware this entire game is one big timesink. I'm sure you've wasted hours and hours of time on content that in the end was obsolete afterwards. I'm not saying it is "ok" to be a non-AOE DPS. Maybe in some content it happens more often than others. I've played this game since 2013 and my experience is that usually a run taking "too long" is more a factor of AFKs, disconnects, etc etc rather than bad DPS. Others may have a different experience or it could just be they tend to remember the "bad DPS" more than the "AFK" experiences and simply focus on that to rant and rave about it.

"3 minutes here and there" is a drop in the bucket vs the hours we voluntarily waste in this game.

[MintnHoney]

If people were actually trying they would be properly playing

Let's not count those chickens before they've hatched, dude.

[Equitable_Remedy]

As an elite savage raider, I use my AOE rotation on single-target pulls.

Single target Doton let's go!

[Jojoya]

Players who press more buttons to do less damage because they didn't read tooltips are jerks though.

Some are.

Some aren't.

Some have little experience with MMOs, having played other types games that work differently and they assume the rules would be the same here.

Not everyone is able to figure things out from tooltips, or reading a guide. It's not like critical thinking is high on the list of things getting taught in public schools when teacher bonuses are dependent on how well students memorize specific answers to specific test questions.

Those not good at math aren't going to think about applying math to figure out what gives better damage to use when attacking 4 targets: a single target ability that hits with a potency of 450 or an AOE ability that hits all surrounding targets within 7y with a potency of 150 (not to mention those mobs maybe spread out depending on the tank and the hitboxes so they're not all within 7y)..

Some of the tool tips are very obscure.

Additional effect: grants XYZ and no explanation of what XYZ is. It's not an ability name. It's not a trait name. Players shouldn't have to dive through every single tooltip on every single ability to find that an action they've been using since level 7 now has additional text that says "When under the effect of XYZ, potency is increased to 250"

Why get on someone's case over a dungeon that's easy? If you want to set those standards for EX or Savage, I'm 100% with you. Players stepping into that content should know what they're doing. Players just going through normal dungeons and trials for MSQ? Not worth it. It's usually not hard to tell when someone is honestly trying to contribute and when they're trolling.

"3 minutes here and there" is a drop in the bucket vs the hours we voluntarily waste in this game.

Exactly. Players waste a lot more time standing around an Aetheryte yet they don't complain about that time lost.