Endgame toxicity

[Peekachu33]

My anecdotal story. I'm currently out of a FC; I won't jump into one lightly and I'd rather be "unguilded" than in a FC I don't care for. As a result, I'm forced to use PF and the friends list to complete raid content. It works out well. Now, regarding Bismarck EX, the only way I was able to get a clear was when I politely enforced restrictions. Melee dps and SMN only. We downed the whale on the first try. The DRG was new, even, but had been to phase 3 before. It was quite epic actually, a bunch of us wiped on phase 4 and it was just me and a monk. I went into full on zombie mode (iZombie reference) and distracted the adds, without heals, for 10s while the MNK finished off Moby Dick with a LVL 1 LB.

Can Bismarck EX be done with a full range of DPS? Of course. However, anyone with a parser or common sense can see that it's simply easier for certain classes to push out raw burst than others since HW came along. I'm empathetic as to the reasons why, however, I don't have to dedicate my scarce gaming time and the time of others to teaching/ praying/ hoping others can maximize their roles. It's a development issue, too--not wholly player error or a learning curve. I just wanted to get that content out of the way and this was the "potential" path of least resistance. Sure, people can still suck, but at least I'd done everything numerically possible to ensure a win after bashing my head against that fight for days (and literally never missing a step).

In the current content one weak or derping link breaks the whole chain. Hell, I even joined a 6/8 "guaranteed clear for a FC member" party and they derped all over the place and passed maybe half the dps checks (BRD and MCH in that particular party, make of that what you will).