"Huge lack of tanks and healers in the game"

[Nadirah]

@Mykul, hate is what determines participation.

That's why people spam big heals. I can get full credit provoking the boss then dropping RoH, drop combat and leave, or spamming Flash and then the same.

[Nadirah]

That sort of thing happened occasionally in RIFT as well. Basically someone would queue as tank and then immediately switch to a dps role once inside and just be like "someone else can do it." Obviously, you'll find people like that everywhere. Have you looked out your window lately? lol

It was a big enough problem for them to change how the system worked.

[Cherie]

I've been running roulettes on a daily basis because I've been leveling all my jobs for pretty much no reason.

I've come with a helpful tip to avoid having to deal with drama in a dungeon:
If someone says something other "Hello!" or "Good game", it's best to just bail right there. If someone finds something to say that doesn't start drama in the past, I'd give them a accommodation. Right now, if anyone attempts to drum up a conversation, I hover my finger over the abandon group button. From past experiences it's proven the 30 minute penalty and not completing the dungeon is way cheaper than the drama. I usually take those 30 minutes to reflect on my life, do my taxes, paint the house, clean the litter box, etc all the while realizing I dodged the bullet. Shoveling cat poop out of a box is way much more exciting than sticking around to see what will happen.

Have any of you actually had a situation in a random "leveling" roulette where a conversation went well? Usually it involves something completely random and offensive in my past experiences. I'd love to just turn off the chat feature entirely but if I did people would just assume I was a bot and try to ban me since I'd never respond... The only correct response is "abandon party".

Even the devs commented on how in a dungeon that you should consider your fellow adventurers like NPCs (maybe one of you guys can find the quote and link it). Therefore, if these NPCs start "speaking", they must be some sort of horrible artificial intelligence emerging and means the robot apocalypse is upon us. Best to (Run Away!).

[Aomine1992]

Yea as I'm lvlving my tank I see it gets worse and worse...in the the vault the healer was in cleric stance the whole time not healing and pulling extra mobs, obviously next I die trying to save him...then the dps say stupid crap like "tank much" or "do you even cd bro" (second one was funny) but the point was I had blown my CDs on the first huge mob that I didn't even pull >_> lol I swear these ppl scare tanks away unfortunately I want my DRK 60 so two more levels of this garbage...the healer respone was I always do this...I'm like with who!!! A tank in i300 gear not synced gosh

But every healer besides the WHM ole faithful lol has been in cleric stance the whole time rushing the dungeon...I don't get it where is everyone in a rush too?

[Whiteroom]

That sort of thing happened occasionally in RIFT as well. Basically someone would queue as tank and then immediately switch to a dps role once inside and just be like "someone else can do it." Obviously, you'll find people like that everywhere. Have you looked out your window lately? lol

It happened in DCUO as well. Caused loot rage. You would queue as dps, a heals would leave, so you would switch to heal to help, then the other healer would rage if you rolled on healer loot, but the dps would rage if you rolled on dps loot.

[LaylaTsarra]

lol I swear these ppl scare tanks away unfortunately I want my DRK 60 so two more levels of this garbage...

My War is a 54... so I still have a bit of DF to have to deal with. I've leveled Paladin to 60 on my alt and liked the role so much I'll be leveling it on my main too (53 at the moment). I've earned my Zeta on War so I'm familiar with the DF but it's not something I enjoy. So much more fun to do it with friends and our FC is large enough so finding a full party for stuff we do is pretty easy.

[CyrilLucifer]

If someone says something other "Hello!" or "Good game", it's best to just bail right there.

Yes, how dare people try to ask their party's preferences, or communicate strategy. What terrible, rude players trying to stir up drama.

And trying to be friendly. Good lord, what are they thinking? How toxic.

[Mindylou]

This from a #lolDrg smh, anyway, I apologize that us tanks are the epitome of awesomeness (Sit back down PLD! nice try though) and that we are in short supply outside of our FC/LS groups because: 1) we make friends soo easily. 2)The thought of running with random herp derps gives me Delirium Tremens(Latin, look it up #google). In short, why would I want to waste my time in Stranger Danger DF when I can Blitz through it while having a convo with ppl I like?

#ByeFelicia

you think they are your friends...lolol

[Cherie]

Yes, how dare people try to ask their party's preferences, or communicate strategy. What terrible, rude players trying to stir up drama.

And trying to be friendly. Good lord, what are they thinking? How toxic.

If you are being serious, then yes, of course not everyone is mean and crude. It's not black and white though. It's not like, there are some people that are like evil incarnate and the rest are all little angels. The way to hell is paved with good intentions. Even conversations in good humor often degrade into something unpleasant.

Case in point, these official forums. We are a bunch of jovial little monsters aren't we? :P

If I'm trying to get a dungeon done for the daily I really don't want to discuss it with the group. If someone has a valid point, I will address it but if they want to take the dungeon off track for 10 minutes because (insert reason here) then I want to leave. Penalty is better than having to police a internet argument for strangers.

[karateorangutang]

I've been running roulettes on a daily basis because I've been leveling all my jobs for pretty much no reason.

I've come with a helpful tip to avoid having to deal with drama in a dungeon:
If someone says something other "Hello!" or "Good game", it's best to just bail right there. If someone finds something to say that doesn't start drama in the past, I'd give them a accommodation. Right now, if anyone attempts to drum up a conversation, I hover my finger over the abandon group button. From past experiences it's proven the 30 minute penalty and not completing the dungeon is way cheaper than the drama. I usually take those 30 minutes to reflect on my life, do my taxes, paint the house, clean the litter box, etc all the while realizing I dodged the bullet. Shoveling cat poop out of a box is way much more exciting than sticking around to see what will happen.

Have any of you actually had a situation in a random "leveling" roulette where a conversation went well? Usually it involves something completely random and offensive in my past experiences. I'd love to just turn off the chat feature entirely but if I did people would just assume I was a bot and try to ban me since I'd never respond... The only correct response is "abandon party".

Even the devs commented on how in a dungeon that you should consider your fellow adventurers like NPCs (maybe one of you guys can find the quote and link it). Therefore, if these NPCs start "speaking", they must be some sort of horrible artificial intelligence emerging and means the robot apocalypse is upon us. Best to (Run Away!).

I hover my hand over the abandon button if I don't get a single response to my hello when I get in a dungeon. If you can't spare the time to respond to even a simple hello... then I'm assuming that you don't care at all.

I'm not talking a conversation.... just a hello.