Quote Originally Posted by dspguy View Post
The moment that they added "Duty Complete" flags to PF, it was only natural for people to start lying.
No, they did it before that flag existed. I know because I made parties back then for Alexander in Heavensward. Once I was consistent at it, I made A10S post-Steamroller parties and none of the people joining were beyond that prog wall.

It was also back then even that I regularly observed parties getting to a mechanic in a messy way and then saying they were "up" to it and modifying their PF, which they still do to this day. There is just a fundamental misunderstanding of what being "up" to a mechanic means. There are many players that actually think seeing a mechanic with lots of deaths and damage downs and a healer LB3 means they are "up" to the mechanic.

Back then, instead of [Duty Complete], we put "2 chests, no bonus" to scare away people that didn't have it on farm and this was actually fine in my experience. Usually, these parties went smooth as they do now. I never even had to consider kicking anyone in reclears. But that terminology looks very toxic, so [Duty Complete] was a way to make PF look more inviting to a new player.