Endgame toxicity

[Yuyushuu]

Hunts aside, that's a whole other kettle of stuff..

Just looking at the party finder for the new EX Primals I've come to realize just how horrible the endgame community in this game is?

Ravana EX:
EX Farm Party, Only join if you have beaten the fight, must show totem or weapon or you will be kicked! You must use TS! Problems will be kicked!!
"Know the WHOLE fight, 3 mess ups and you're out. No Law bonus, will be kicked first death!"

Bismark EX: (!!)
ilvl requirement 175
No Law Bonus or kick

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[Yuyushuu]

It's impossible to find a group that will even give you the time of day if it's your first time doing a fight, people just want easy mode. The whole if you die, you're out mentality is completely retarded ontop of that, these fights are a little over a week old and people are just starting to hit endgame that didn't rush to 60. (Unlike me.. /cough ) But seriously? I've beat Bismark EX once, and it was at ilvl 160, and we had no serious issues, took a couple of tries, but we did fine, now people just seem to be wanting a group to easily carry them through these primal battles? I tried one of the Ravana EX groups earlier (One with the 3 strike rule) Leader died 8 times and was probably the worst geared of everyone there.

Is this just a problem on my server? or is FFXIV endgame's community really this bad, and new-to-endgame hostile?

Also, SE this isn't twitter+, 1000 characters is kinda hilarious..

[Canadane]

Also, SE this isn't twitter+, 1000 characters is kinda hilarious..

Edit your post and you no longer have a character limit.

[Yuyushuu]

Edit your post and you no longer have a character limit.

Cool, I never knew that~

@Azper

That's not my point, I'm saying the majority of people doing endgame content seem to have this kind of mentality. FFXIV seems to be seriously bad for it, I never really noticed this issue being so prominent in other MMO communities (From the small handful I've played at least) I did start a Bismark EX 2 nights ago to help a LS mate get clear, and both the tanks that joined immediately started conspiring to change it from a clear to farm party.. got the clear, after one of them left because we wiped at 10%ish a couple times.. but it kinda ruined the mood.

[Krissey]

Cool, I never knew that~

@Azper

That's not my point, I'm saying the majority of people doing endgame content seem to have this kind of mentality. FFXIV seems to be seriously bad for it, I never really noticed this issue being so prominent in other MMO communities (From the small handful I've played at least) I did start a Bismark EX 2 nights ago to help a LS mate get clear, and both the tanks that joined immediately started conspiring to change it from a clear to farm party.. got the clear, after one of them left because we wiped at 10%ish a couple times.. but it kinda ruined the mood.

you must have never played WoW. Any PUG (pick up group) raid that wiped ONCE, especially on first boss was instantly disbanded and fell apart.

[Velisra]

Cool, I never knew that~

@Azper

That's not my point, I'm saying the majority of people doing endgame content seem to have this kind of mentality. FFXIV seems to be seriously bad for it, I never really noticed this issue being so prominent in other MMO communities (From the small handful I've played at least) I did start a Bismark EX 2 nights ago to help a LS mate get clear, and both the tanks that joined immediately started conspiring to change it from a clear to farm party.. got the clear, after one of them left because we wiped at 10%ish a couple times.. but it kinda ruined the mood.

This is exactly why, as a new player (with my first character at 51 and still not yet done with the level 50 content) I'm not in a huge rush to get to HW at all. These types of folks who make end-game content into a job are in every game. They were in WoW when I left, and they were much of the reason that I never did instanced group content in WoW. I wasn't willing to put up with the elitists and trolls in group content to play the game. I didn't have to do it there to play the game, but apparently I must do it in FF to clear the story content.

That pretty much sucks if there are going to be elitists in group content. Perhaps I'll never get to finish the story in HW until it's "old content" like ARR content is now, when everyone is on to the next xpac and only runs the old content once daily to get the xp and currencies. /shrug There are plenty of things to do in FF, though I supposed there's a possibility that I'll run out of things to do and then have to unsub and play something else. It is quite sad that people have to be elitist jerks over a game.

[Dement]

This is exactly why, as a new player (with my first character at 51 and still not yet done with the level 50 content) I'm not in a huge rush to get to HW at all. These types of folks who make end-game content into a job are in every game. They were in WoW when I left, and they were much of the reason that I never did instanced group content in WoW. I wasn't willing to put up with the elitists and trolls in group content to play the game. I didn't have to do it there to play the game, but apparently I must do it in FF to clear the story content.

That pretty much sucks if there are going to be elitists in group content. Perhaps I'll never get to finish the story in HW until it's "old content" like ARR content is now, when everyone is on to the next xpac and only runs the old content once daily to get the xp and currencies. /shrug There are plenty of things to do in FF, though I supposed there's a possibility that I'll run out of things to do and then have to unsub and play something else. It is quite sad that people have to be elitist jerks over a game.

You won't have the same problem with the end of HW like you did with ARR. You have to run one final dungeon and do one final fight, both of which take a team. The difference is the dungeon is only a 4 man dungeon and only has a an intro scene and one short scene late in the dungeon. ARR's end had so many problems because it literally had 35 minutes of cutscenes to watch in CM and the Praetorium each. Most parties will wait for you to watch your ~3 minutes of cutscenes if you tell them you're new. It was asinine for SE to ever think people would twiddle their thumbs while new people watched 35 minutes.

As to endgame as a whole, it's honestly not nearly as bad as it's made out to be as long as you don't overstep your boundaries. If you've never been into a fight or never been to the last phase only join learning parties or create your own learning party. If you have been to the last phase but not cleared it and are comfortable with your execution, join clear parties but DO NOT join farm parties unless previously talking with the leader. As long as you are in a party commensurate with your skill level in a fight, you will rarely have too many problems save for the very occasional asshat. Toxicity in these fights stems from people who are brand new to a fight trying to join a farm party with 7 other people who can probably run the encounter in their sleep.

[Lewtskie]

This is exactly why, as a new player (with my first character at 51 and still not yet done with the level 50 content) I'm not in a huge rush to get to HW at all. These types of folks who make end-game content into a job are in every game. They were in WoW when I left, and they were much of the reason that I never did instanced group content in WoW. I wasn't willing to put up with the elitists and trolls in group content to play the game. I didn't have to do it there to play the game, but apparently I must do it in FF to clear the story content.

Extreme Primals are not story content. They're side content that stretches on what is established through the story content. Entirely not required for anything except maybe future Primal fights, if they were to still do that.

And you don't need to put up with the elitists? Obviously you aren't in a rush, you take things at your won pace so I don't see why you don't wait until you find like-minded players and do the content in your own way. Everyone acts as though they have to involve themselves with these horrible, terrible, vile heathens who just want to clear shit. Just don't bother with them? And yes, through PF or Linkshells or Free Companies, or even outside sources like forums or other websites you never have to even notice these evil players. They do their thing; you do yours. So you want to clear an EX Primal? Make a damn clear party if you don't see one. Don't just demand people hold responsibilities to teach everyone. This is Multiplayer but that doesn't mean they have to play with EVERY player. They stick to their people and just as they're going through the extra mile to make sure they can get shit done right and then, you just need to put effort into creating your little bubble.

[Viridiana]

Is this just a problem on my server? or is FFXIV endgame's community really this bad, and new-to-endgame hostile?

Also, SE this isn't twitter+, 1000 characters is kinda hilarious..

Huh? I literally just cleared Bismark a few hours ago in PF on Balmung. In a learning party. A party that, from what I can tell, filled pretty durn fast.

Also, if you edit your post you can bypass the 1k limit. Silly workarounds to draconian restrictions.

Edit: Just tabbed back into game and see 2 Bismark learning parties up. Granted, the Ravana party is saying that a law message=disband and that they'll be using a Mr Happy strategy, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

[KisaiTenshi]

Is this just a problem on my server? or is FFXIV endgame's community really this bad, and new-to-endgame hostile?

There are definitely elitist jerks on every server.