Ready checks

[Alisi]

Whenever someone uses them in a dungeon, I never get a pop up asking about them and it always shows that I'm apparently not ready so what am I doing wrong? I'm thinking of making a macro just to say 'I'm ready' when a check is given. ;P

[matt8107t]

Busy on maybe. Busy auto puts you as not ready.

[Zephyr-Umbra]

Definitely odd, never had that happen to me personally.

On the subject of ready checks however, i did a couple ST and WoD runs yesterday as the MT, and a few times i got angry responses for popping a ready check to make sure everyone was good to go, we had some new players and in the earlier parts of the dungeons people didn't seem to have their shit together, during one of the CT runs i had a healer grab the agro of the final encounter and told me to and i quote "wake up" when there were still people pouring into the arena and setting up. Should i just not bother with checks anymore when i seem to receive negative feedback over ensuing everyone is good to go?

I understand people are anxious and just want to get it over with, but as a MT in a raid i try to wait for those who're slower or new to the dungeon so their party members can explain the mechanics or position/buff themselves. It's disheartening when you get rude comments just for being accommodating of others.

[Alisi]

Busy on maybe. Busy auto puts you as not ready.

Ah! I see. That's what it is then. There's a HUGE amount of gold sellers on my server that'll just whsp me the same thing over and over and over. I have Busy on always because of that. XD

Should i just not bother with checks anymore when i seem to receive negative feedback over ensuing everyone is good to go?

You should do ready checks for the bosses in raids. If you're getting angry comments about that, tell them to go host their own raid. In dungeons it's a bit redundant and for trash mobs that don't require much CC (I haven't raided in FFXIV yet so I don't know how that goes as far as trash mobs) but otherwise? Certainly. And, really, if you're in a raid and they can't be bothered with a ready check then they probably aren't the best raiders to have with your group anyway, right?

[StouterTaru]

Should i just not bother with checks anymore when i seem to receive negative feedback over ensuing everyone is good to go?

My rule for CT runs is if everyone is there, nobody is new, and nobody has said otherwise, everyone is there. Ready checks typically end up as 10 second warnings on the pull when people do them.

[JimboTCB]

My rule for CT runs is if everyone is there, nobody is new, and nobody has said otherwise, everyone is there. Ready checks typically end up as 10 second warnings on the pull when people do them.

In my experience of CT, when one of the tanks initiates a ready check it usually acts as a prompt for one of the others to pull the boss before anyone has a chance to respond...

[Niwashi]

On the subject of ready checks however, i did a couple ST and WoD runs yesterday as the MT, and a few times i got angry responses for popping a ready check to make sure everyone was good to go, we had some new players and in the earlier parts of the dungeons people didn't seem to have their shit together, during one of the CT runs i had a healer grab the agro of the final encounter and told me to and i quote "wake up" when there were still people pouring into the arena and setting up. Should i just not bother with checks anymore when i seem to receive negative feedback over ensuing everyone is good to go?

I understand people are anxious and just want to get it over with, but as a MT in a raid i try to wait for those who're slower or new to the dungeon so their party members can explain the mechanics or position/buff themselves. It's disheartening when you get rude comments just for being accommodating of others.

You were using them the way they're intended to be used, to make sure you got everyone together. Whoever was complaining was just being a jerk. Some people just don't want to allow others (particularly newcomers) to be ready or take part in the run. Don't let selfish players discourage you from being better than them just because they'll complain about it.