Initial enmity generation and player bad habits.

[Gilraen]

Alot of these high level players today learned their roles in Fates, that is to say they didn't. They were part of those Fate grind lynch mobs where the standard enmity mechanics are tossed out the window in favor of some strange form of weighted enmity system, where most of the time the person with aggro would have to either leave the Fate or die in order to lose it. Thus you've got players that dump everything at every mob and expect their enmity bleed moves to save them, if they even remember to use them. This is very counter-intuitive learning. Worse still, these Fate-kids are 'teaching' newer players that their way is the proper way to play their roles. I mean, there's even a belief going around that healers who don't DD are terrible healers that should be kicked in favor of 'good' healers. Seriously. It's a 'crime' to just heal, now. It makes me sad.

[Nuinn]

Seriously. It's a 'crime' to just heal, now. It makes me sad.

Nah, it certainly isn't a crime to just heal but, after grinding the same dungeons for months in order to get whatever, every second spent longer in there feels like an eternity. It's completely irrational, yet it's just how it is. SE's recycling of old content to make a messy patchwork they call "new content" is to blame and it's only natural that most will want to deal with what they've already "completed" in the past as soon as possible.