Do you think sell groups are hurting end game community?

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What I am referring to is the RNG with drops. Don't get me wrong, I do not think it's a good idea for a person to go into a dungeon once and get everything, it's more a case of swapping drops for tokens or some other method of reducing the horrific RNG. If you want the PLD sword in T9 for example, you might do it 30 times before it drops, that's 30 lots of paying someone might do, and that means $$$ for RMT. If you dropped a token that 1 player can loot, and trade in for a specific item of their choice, that would result in just 1 paid run. Alternatively, the RNG factor can be limited to the classes in the group, so instead of getting NIN and MNK drops when there's not one in the group, it would reduce the chances of undesirable drops, and again, reducing the potential kills needed (though with this game design style, you could in theory still need 30 kills for a specific drop).

I can agree with that. I actually like the token idea

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And to those saying "it's no worse than being carried by friends" :

Though I can see why you'd say that, when it comes to my friends and FC and the people I've encountered through livestreaming and such, we almost always discuss strategies/mechanics/ways to improve/etc...and worked to help those who aren't strong at a particular part of the fight exceed. I know not everyone is like this, but justifying "boosting" with that is just silly. Because that's not the only thing wrong with "boosting"

Yes, that is perfectly fine. Let's say you apply for a job as a Cisco router and switch technician. When you show up to the job, you have absolutely no idea how to use Cisco IOS, nor how to configure a switch or router. Do you think you're going to get or keep that job? Absolutely not. It is not their job to teach you, it is YOUR job to take time and teach yourself.

I'm not talking about mechanics here, which vary from fight to fight. I'm talking about being able to do your basic job.

Uhh.....as someone who is completely against the run selling, your analogy is off....if I go to a job, actually it is the job of my superiors to teach me wtf I'm doing...you can't just walk into a job knowing how to do everything. Unless it's a field you're already greatly familiar with. And even then you need to learn what that job requires, their policies, their methods of practice. And that'd not really something you can teach yourself. The basics, sure....but....yeah...I'm going off topic. Because that doesn't have anything to do with run selling really...just an odd analogy. I may have just misinterpreted it, and I apologize if I had...but *shrug*