Proper Etiquette for Dungeons and Duty Finder Events(Not a Troll Thread)

[Madruck]

This is but a small list of proper etiquette all roles in a party I suggest players need to follow with specific ones based on the role played:

General:

1. Properly and nicely acknowledge anyone who has greeted you upon entry into your group. I.E. Hello, Hi, Good morning ETC......

2. Wear appropriate gear inside the Dungeon or event unless you state at the start of such event that you are spiritbinding gear so we may adjust accordingly.

3. If you must step away for real life happenstance, please do the proper courtesy by nicely saying you will need a moment or that you will be right back. It will go a long way to ensure others in your group do not Vote Kick you for being AFK.

4. Help others in your party with information if you clearly know that it is their first time in such event or dungeon. Be it boss mechanics or if you are planning on doing large pulls so the party know with confidence what is to occur.

5. If you are new to a dungeon or event in your specific role, please inform your team so we may help with information or possibly adjustments to playstyle of the party.

DPS:

1. As a dps, never pull or intentionally grab aggro from the tank to make a dungeon run faster or if you feel that they are not going fast enough. If you feel that the tank is being to cautious, feel free to inform them of your opinion and let the party make a consensus of what speed the dungeon or even should be accomplished.

2. Parsers are banned and illegal in FF14. If you are using such device contrary to the EUA, then keep such information to oneself and do not call out or disrespect another player if you see that they are doing bad dps. Approach them with information vital to the role they are playing in a kind and honest suggestion to help them progress and play such job better.

3. If you are assigned DPS, please accomplish you task as you assigned yourself to do and to the best of your ability play such job optimally. As your teammates, we can clearly see the effort a person does and when a player is just spamming one or 2 abilities. Also please make sure to try your best to avoid Aoes to put less burden on tanks and the healers in your team.

Healer:

1. With great respect, please make sure at all times that all available buffs are activated and please make sure that you inform your tank that you need mana or some other resource to continue.

2. Only when appropriate, please make sure your sole focus in a event or dungeon is to heal. It can be quite easy to lose track of your role and to allow you tank to die if you focus to much on dps and not on healing.

3. Cleanse and such similar abilities are incredibly important to be used in dungeons and events. There are to many times in such teammates are curse with some ailment that could easily be taken care of by this quick and effective ability to make the party more effective as a whole.

Tanks:

1. With caution, please inform you team and consider their reaction in regards to tanking in dps stance. Make a sound choice based on gear lvl and also effectiveness of you party.

2. Please do not solely rely on your healer to keep you alive. Tanks have a vast array of defense abilities that sometimes are incredibly unused that could easily alleviate the pressure of you support structure within one's team.

3. Only pull a appropriate amount of trash mobs that you can confidently tank. Also, please inform you team of such actions so they can be prepared to focus on burst heals and AOE damage. Make sure to fully utilize all your debuffs and abilities to hold aggro and while sustaining focus on such group.

This has been a short list of guidelines I feel that would help alot of people in regards to their experiences inside Duty Finder Dungeons and Events. Following these simple and respectable suggestions will create a positive time for all in effect while also sustaining team cohesion.

[bounddreamer]

I would say this is all common sense but. I play in DF every day and sadly it is not.

[Rawrz]

Please make healing your priority and dps your endeavor in an event or dungeon. It can sometimes be easy to lose track of your tank's HP and allow them to die if you focus too much on dps and not on healing.

Fixed it for you.

[Krylo]

2. Parsers are banned and illegal in FF14. If you are using such device contrary to the EUA, then keep such information to oneself and do not call out or disrespect another player if you see that they are doing bad dps. Approach them with information vital to the role they are playing in a kind and honest suggestion to help them progress and play such job better.

This should really be in general, rather than DPS specific.

2. Only when appropriate, please make sure your sole focus in a event or dungeon is to heal. It can be quite easy to lose track of your role and to allow you tank to die if you focus to much on dps and not on healing.

Needs to be followed by a rule something along the lines of, 'That said, if you are just standing around doing nothing or overhealing the party by obscene amounts, turn on Cleric stance for a couple seconds and throw out some aeros or something.' Healers that just stand there spamming cure on tanks that are nearly topped off are pretty aggravating, as it creates a bunch of aggro and makes the tank's job harder while accomplishing nothing. Healers who stand around doing nothing because the tank is nearly/topped off are less aggravating, but still--do SOMETHING.

And I run into both of those in DF way more often than healers that are too busy DPSing and let someone die. In fact, the only times I've seen healers let someone die in DF after, like, level 30, were because the tank pulled way too much, the healer had some kind of connection problem or something for a minute, or someone in the party wasn't doing their job right (tank not using CDs, DPS taking too long so healer mp runs dry, healer just not knowing how to heal properly. . .)

[Sapphic]

I would say this is all common sense but. I play in DF every day and sadly it is not.

Humanity shows sense is far from common, they should rename it uncommon sense XD

OP:- You mention giving players advice in a friendly manner, should also add that if you are given advice not to ignore it like too many do, even if advice is needed to help them improve.

Couple of tips from me.
Unless you know the content and communication isn't really needed, do not queue for content you don't know with a language selected you cannot understand. It's frustrating to get a new person in a DF party that after queing with only English selected and unable to communicate when it is painfully obvious they need info.

[mp-please]

With great respect, please make sure at all times that all available buffs are activated and please make sure that you inform your tank that you need mana or some other resource to continue.

MP bars are visible to everyone in the party. If i have to remind someone to do anything about my mp is my party bard, not the tank.

[Dererk]

I would like to add something to the healer portion.

Healers if a DRK in your party uses Living Dead and has it marcoed. Don't go crazy on the heals and waste a 3 min CD. take a sec breath put out one dps spell then heal. And if the whm has benediction ready. Use it when Walking dead gets to 5 seconds at lest.

[Jynx]

Here is the correct "Etiquette" for duty finder.

1. Click the duty finder and accept the fact that the people you will be playing with may not agree with how you want to run the dungeon.

2. Welcome to random grouping.

[mp-please]

I would like to add something to the healer portion.

Healers if a DRK in your party uses Living Dead and has it marcoed. Don't go crazy on the heals and waste a 3 min CD. take a sec breath put out one dps spell then heal. And if the whm has benediction ready. Use it when Walking dead gets to 5 seconds at lest.

Most healers never let living dead go off for a simple reason, it sucks.

Considering DRKs usually run around with a average of 15k hp, that's a 3 non crit cure IIs that need to be cast before zombie mode wears off. With each cure II needing ~2.4 seconds to cast, now if we mix aoe dodging, reaction time and server lag like casting cure on the wrong person due server not registering target swap.... you can see where i'm getting at. In a nutshell, letting living dead pop isn't fun for healers.

[Jijifli]

I would like to add something to the healer portion.

Healers if a DRK in your party uses Living Dead and has it marcoed. Don't go crazy on the heals and waste a 3 min CD. take a sec breath put out one dps spell then heal. And if the whm has benediction ready. Use it when Walking dead gets to 5 seconds at lest.

I will never let that ability show any use. It is so horrible because its effect requires the person to die.