Quote Originally Posted by Leonus View Post
It is how it works when players inevitably gate access because they don’t allow suboptimal players to compete in content that you don’t actually have to be the best of the best to complete. You just have to be good enough. You see it all over the forums with people openly talking about logs and trying to shame people for not performing to the max of what a job could be performing. It’s not hard to see the implications of it. It’s on display every day, even in game.

Literally had a party last night that was making fun of a viper last night in a learning party that was doing less damage than the set before I arrived. That’s just a recent example. This eventually gets worse over time and as they lack in performance because “they have too much to pay attention to and business” they feel as though they can’t play the class they want due to them not being able to perform and social perception. That is gating. It may not be directly.
You mean, the learning party for the raid right? Or did you think the "Learning" part applied to pretty much any part of the game?

Yeah, High-End content players will expect you to know your Job. That's why it's High-End. If you wanna learn a job in active content, which is fair, then DT's Expert dungeons are pretty good at keeping you on your toes, and the same goes for the Normal raid. You can learn your job better in those and no one's going to care how well you're playing unless you're actively tanking the floor (luckily, the debuff falling off won't kill you, so that's on you).

If you truly believe that any form of skill (let's pretend tracking a single debuff is high on that list) that can lead to "mean High-end content players" should be pruned, then I hope to see you fight for a lot more job changes across the board. I find Mudras hard. Some tank finds it hard to pick which mitigation to use. I'm sure you could find someone saying the same thing about Heals on Healers, I could go on. But if this is the only subject you feel so strongly about, then ...

Just say you don't want to track the debuff.