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    Seryl199's Avatar
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    Delferia Seule
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    Siren
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    Astrologian Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by PetiteMalFleur View Post
    OP, people like big pulls because they are really easy to manage and make the dungeon go much faster. It is not hard to spam an aoe ability and hitting one button for the cd. People overthink tanking too much. It is not hard.
    Just because a speed run is mechanically simple doesn't mean it's easy. It requires awareness, decision making, and confidence, things that experienced players acquire through exposure to various content. The OP, like plenty of others, is new, and trying to complete content in a safe manner, and getting hated. They haven't had the experience that 2.X players have, speed running level 50 dungeons and learning that confidence and decision making in a decidedly safer environment, thanks to serious overgearing.

    New players don't have that luxury. Once they've reached level 50, a large portion of the community suddenly expects that tanks are able to speed run, and that's unfair. Some players are skilled enough to step up to that challenge, but a lot of players simply need time to be comfortable. They're not out to make sure no one else has fun, but demanding a speed run of someone when they aren't comfortable is a surefire way to guarantee they don't have fun, and if your tank or healer is upset or nervous, they're more likely to make mistakes resulting in a wipe. Just have a little patience and courtesy (not specifically aimed at the quoted poster), because there is a person on the other side of that character, and they're trying to enjoy their experience just as much as you are.
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    Yukariko's Avatar
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    Viola Frost'yukari
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    Scholar Lv 60
    what is really tragic is that speed runs appear to be become mandatory.
    me (drg) and my tank friend did high level roulette and got AK:hard, one of the other players said "pull all" i said "why" and my tank friend said "no" (they prefer normal pulls) this went quickly into a quite spiteful argument with both calling us "fucking idiots" for not wanting to speed run, sad thing is both other players did everything they could to then slow the run down as much as they could.
    I'll admit i stopped rolling on loot as i feared they would vote kick my tank friend.
    and we were sill done in 20 minutes.

    Another one with me tanking, got a "big pulls" comment after only pulling the first group, to which I replied "sorry I'm not that good a tank" got a random "I believe lol" reply, or something to that effect, honestly i try my best to do quick pulls so there's rarely a gap between trash groups, anyways finished this normal run and came out with 2 comms.
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    Last edited by Yukariko; 08-03-2015 at 11:43 PM.

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