The community so far.......

[Zeny]

I had a very frustrating day trying to do some HM dungeons. I wanted to spiritbond on my bard (wearing the full gryphonskin set and a few + spriitbond accessories) while doing a grand company hunting log (I changed GCs recently...). I was willing to deal with the long wait time because I knew I could really make a profit if I got lucky on conversion. Anyway, I get into my HM after 25 minutes and its AK. Cool, big dungeon - lots of mobs, and no one was new.

The tank and other DPS INSTANTLY leave. What? Why join a HM if you aren't prepared to follow through!! I didn't want to wait around in another queue forever, so I stood around and eventually the healer left too. What happens next is of course, a new tank joins and asks "What happened?" So i explained. He remains silent, was obviously inspecting me and then says "spiritbonding, seriously?" and leaves.What??? I have an unweathered rosenbogen and two 110 accessories... along with a full i70 set. Last I checked, you needed to be i65 to queue for some HMs. It's probably less for AK. Here I was pushing i74... and whats worse, is there was a new BLM in AF gear who joined after him who I was happy to run with, after all I was here for a hunting long and spiritbonding.

I got into an awesome Tam Tara HM where the healer was spiritbonding i90! Thats not cheap but my god I wasn't going to leave over it, much less criticize him! Most of the time these players outperform the geared ones in my opinion! Does the community not realize the requirements to spiritbond high level gear now a days? I'm not holding you back, hell I've done speed runs of Brayflox HM alongside a monk with this set and I was shocked at the immediate shun I received from other players for this.

Well, thats my rant - call me stupid for SBing this way or say its a loss of money, the materia market is booming and I'm just trying to make a profit, not slow your dungeon run down.

[jlenoconel]

Some people are ridiculously rude on this game. I get that I'm a little inexperienced with MMOs but am working hard to get better at A Realm Reborn. Anyway, I basically had a group kick me out of a duty because they literally failed to tell me what to do to help beat a boss. When I kept dying and subsequently complained that I didn't know what I was doing, I was told "It should be obvious what to do." Bear in mind that this boss was in the mid level 30s in the duty finder. Its people being obnoxious and then punishing less experienced players by kicking them out of duties. A lot of this doesn't usually happen at the lower to mid levels, and I always get players commendations for my work in each team. Its the later dungeons and what not, where people just expect you to know what to do, plus they all rush through things, without allowing players to get magic power back or anything like that. Just frustrating.

[Grotesque]

Keep reporting such players who abuse vote kick.

[Trixxy]

Not sure if it's only on my own world like that but the parties i get through my duty roulettes have been just fine and I can't recall meeting players with a wrong attitude, on the contrary people don't seem to mind whenever someone else asks for a full dungeon run,

[LionKing]

Keep reporting such players who abuse vote kick.

And I will keep reporting those who exercises any form of harassment, be obnoxious, be intoxicated, perform any kinds of abusive language towards any players in the party

[DenariusJay]

I didn't have any toxic players during my first time leveling phase. In fact, pretty much all dungeons up to 50 were mostly friendly and easy going, with people being friendly and nice.

That changes after 50.

Some people are ridiculously rude on this game. I get that I'm a little inexperienced with MMOs but am working hard to get better at A Realm Reborn. Anyway, I basically had a group kick me out of a duty because they literally failed to tell me what to do to help beat a boss. When I kept dying and subsequently complained that I didn't know what I was doing, I was told "It should be obvious what to do." Bear in mind that this boss was in the mid level 30s in the duty finder. Its people being obnoxious and then punishing less experienced players by kicking them out of duties. A lot of this doesn't usually happen at the lower to mid levels, and I always get players commendations for my work in each team. Its the later dungeons and what not, where people just expect you to know what to do, plus they all rush through things, without allowing players to get magic power back or anything like that. Just frustrating.

The toxicity crowd and rage players are mostly found in the harder content, CT had it moments of flamers getting mad, ST can have its impatient flamers as well. Titan/Levi EX is probably the worst, one slip up and the arrogant ass Tank start getting mouthy or the "I'm Pro Bro" DPS'er starts calling out the "scrub" players that need to "learn2dodge" and whatnot. Usually at this phase people start berating your gear, and call you scrub if your below i100 or have mostly hunt gear. Turn 5 can get ugly pretty quick too especially if people are new. I think you are unlucky to get it so early in the game, usually it starts at the end game. (from my experience)

Sadly, because the game been out awhile now, a lot of the people you meet in the newbie dungeons are people leveling alts, and they already done the dungeon a million times and they have a flawed mentality that everyone should just know it by now. Of course this is not true but sadly your gonna run into those people every once in awhile. Start developing the thick skin now cause its only gonna get worse.

[Charisma]

We tried kicking him out, but it failed, because the healer was his friend.

In a 4 man instance, you only need one person to agree to the kick.
Im always doing dungeons with a premade tank, and we have been running into alot of toxic players, also premades sometimes, and we never failed to kick any of them, so i can assure you that the monk never accepted the kick vote.

[erasure25]

To be honest, a lot of new player tanks just take way to long to pull. There's no need to run to the next group of mobs, wait for 5 minutes, ask if people are ready, mark mobs, etc. Just run in and pull. As healer, I don't need to "get" ready. I'm always ready. Just run in and pull and get going. In most groups, DPS are always ready to go also. Maybe take the first few pulls a bit slower to gauge the group. But if they are there, paying attention, and not AFKing, just run in a pull. No need to wait between mobs.

[RyuRoots]

Yeah, for the most part, PS3/PS4 players won't touch their virtual keyboard because it literally locks them out of everything else. Even getting a USB keyboard would mean that they would have to put down their controller in order to type. I personally try to communicate using the auto-translate function, but it's extremely limited. Trust me when I say though that silent runs normally mean that nothing is out of the ordinary during the run.

I play PS4 and I have *never* had issues being able to type during gameplay. I've also had a lot of really fun, chatty runs with friends that also didn't take very long. I dunno, maybe I and most people I know are all anomalous but...I feel like that can't be the case.

[Spawnie]

im a ps3 player with no keyboard so generally im 1 of the non talking players since using virtual keyboard during dungeon runs is meh lol

but the toxic/rude players arent that common in my experience through df most players ive teamed with randomly are generally nice n will help any1 whose new with tactics for bosses etc

come across 1 rude player during a main roulette kept trolling a certain persons gears sayin his noob blah blah blah the player he was trolling kept replying so i just said dont feed the troll n he got butthurt cause no1 would reply to him n left lol