Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
And ... for good reason?

- I remember joining a week 1 M2S clear party and saw a dude in (700) tome gears with zero meld. And the reason why I checked because another person asked why they didn't pop food. I left before the first pull. Yes, you can say someone was being toxic, but I don't think that someone is me.

- You have no idea how soul crushing it is to wipe to +- 1% enrage than see half of the party say "oh guess I can start potting now". Of course, 10/10 times that party will never get there again. And for all I know it'll be probably another 5-10h before I can get an actually clear, while I could have get that clear right there and then.

Starting this tier I have seen some enrage group starting checking progress and replace even before zoning in? I haven't gone that far yet because I rarely if ever make my own PF, and you may call it Toxic but I say good for them. After all I'm tired of Johny Bee Bee joining enrage party and obviously cluessless about half of the mechanic.

You're trying to frame the "reaction" to an issue as problematic, instead of asking why the reaction came to be. Why are you asking for respect and courtesy toward people who obviously possess none of those toward others? Even if someone check your gears, surely it would have caused zero issue if you had done what "courteously" expected of you?
You see I 100% understand why people wait to start using pots or even food because if you don't have crafters leveled or you're not a market shark, those can be very expensive and not everyone feels like "wasting" gil when you're still learning the fight
(Though I blame crafters putting that shit up for stupid high prices despite most of these people who do so probably being gil capped anyway)