Honestly, for Praetorium I do not mind the cutscenes. Castrum is just so long and tedious that it's more of a case that "I signed up to do it much much slower." It's pretty much the last stand of that portion of the MSQ so it's great to see you face and take down (so easily) Gaius with your badass group. Last night I queued into MSQ Roulette and saw that there was at least 1 new person (one being one of the whm, the other whm had only 3.8k hp). I didn't mind cutscenes at all and was the better geared tank. I voiced that I didn't mind a slower pace even when some BLM mentioned that people should watch it in the inn. I'd rather take it slow than die on a stupid pull. But the other tank ran off and the healers followed. Not much I can do about that at that point. It was just amusing to rip hate in sword oath not using provoke or flight or fight off the other tank.

Pleasantly enough, I queued into Stone Vigil NM for my low level roulette. It should have been quite obvious that I was there for exp but w/e. The tank had their novus(ormaybeitwasnexus) and the WHM was using their atma. The other DD was in a similar situation as I was. They tried to sac pull but failed to do it to the first boss so we killed a few things. At that point I realized that the BLM didn't really know the more useful rotation (Using only Fire 3. Then Blizzard or Freeze and then Blizzard 3). I asked or told them that they should use just Fire 3 once and then Fire 1 until just enough MP to then use Blizzard 3. He asked why, didn't get really offended. The whm said something about MP and I said that it was more efficient and better. He tried it out, fixing his hotbars all the same. Said "oh I see now." Then we sac pulled again to the 2nd boss and he got lost. That was fine... until he returned and ended up locked out of the 2nd fight. We ended up finishing SV, no one left. No one rage quit even though the tank and whm were more interested in speed runs than allowing us to get the exp we were sorta hoping for. It was still better than queuing into an otherwise-empty-but-for-this-one-monk Stone Vigil.

Seriously, I run FCOB and we insist on seeing the new cutscenes, even when some people have already seen it. The one time skipping was insisted upon was when it was Monday night, 3 hours to reset and we wanted as much practice in t12 as possible.