is knockback rude?

[Azazua_azura]

as a person who played 1 job of each role to 60. YES! it is rude, it can interupt a tanks rotation, send a mob out of its "leesh" area causing them to reset, prevent/make it harder for players to use their skills on it such as bane, shining emerald, or other aoe skills. Knock backs are only meant for solo situations to kock back the mob slighty if its killing you faster then expecting giving you a relief moment to recover, or if you got aggro on a mob you can kock it to tank. When i was playing as a DRK i wanted to kill just about every MCH i came across because they OVERLY used said knock back which just made it that much harder for me to play the job.

To me the knock back spam some ppl do is worst then hearing every guard in skyrim saying "arror to the knee" and i slaughter many guard when i heard that too much. (gor my eveil sword powered up and ebony armor maxed out though fun times)

using knock backs at wrong times pretty much goes against team play which again in think is rude.

[Sinaloa]

It´s basicly similar to healer dps. Not doing it is ok. You will get away with it and aren´t doing anything wrong. But if you want to improve do it and better do it right or you mess up more than you do good. There are multiple ways to knockback mobs without hurting melees. Wallkicking, interrupting secondary Targets, remove unwanted aggro from a ranged nontank... Finishing mobs with it regulary will grant you even comendations.

[UlricCraft]

No.

The only time it's annoying is a White Mage using it on something that can be rooted.

[Jacosta]

Not sure if it's rude bc I'm sure most aren't intentionally doing it to be a jack_ _ _, but it certainly is annoying.

[Nutz]

Usually it's only rude if done mindlessly or ineptly. I've seen instances, few as they are, where people used aura fluid at least to great success. Usually it's when the WHM pulls a mob, allows it to make its way all the way to the WHM, and then aura fluids it right back into the group. If it weren't for the fact that the WHM has to pull aggro for this to happen I'd find it rather impressive, but usually it goes wrong.

[Averax]

I only ever use fluid aura when i'm by myself. Or when i'm sure it will be a guaranteed kill.

Or when a mob peels off the tank and starts attacking me. (i'm pretty good at estimating the distance things will fly, so i can usually just boot it in front of the tank, and it will be bound until the tank hits it and gets aggro usually.)

[Selli]

I was always under the impression it was really rude and annoying, so I only ever use them on bosses... but knockbacks work on some bosses, so I usually end up apologizing. XD

I have to admit, I use my WHM's knockback in PvP all the time. Mostly out of panic because that person is usually hitting me... people get even more mad in PvP about it than PvE.

[Serilda]

I think it's really rude. I use it when I'm in a 4man with buddies to annoy them or help out (depending on the situation) as WHM, but when I'm in sensible content it's annoying how knockback works on unexpected monsters sometimes and I want to strangle some MCHs who use Blank at weird moments. I wish they would just split the damage and the effect into separate moves - the MCH and WHM abilities are excellent for soloing and it's a shame that they cause so much grief the rest of the time.

I sometimes use the knockback moves when soloing in FATEs for the damage then feel bad when someone I thought was targeting a different monster has to walk to the monster's new position. Oops. Sorry, random strangers.

[Teryaani]

Did you end up with aggro on a mob because the tank isn't holding threat?
Did that tank, despite having marked that mob with a "1" not bother to pick the mob back up even after you dragged it through him/her twice?
Is the healer having to spam heal him/her because he won't bother to use cooldowns and thus leaving you unhealed and being eaten?
Then no, it's not rude. Otherwise it probably is.

[yexie]

you're fating, you pick your mob and start melee him, then out of nowhere he fly 20 yalms away right in the unsafe zone and you either have to wait for him to come back or chase him like an idiot.

Even worse if you're a caster, you pick a safe spot, you start casting your bombs then all you do is "spell interrupted" because of the knockbacks.

In neverreap today, i almost missed my bane because the whm knocked back the wamoura in the first pull.

Personally, when i leveled my brd, mch or whm i never used knockback attack unless i was alone because i know how frustrating it can be for others, but i'd like to know what you think about it, are you still using it because it's a great way to stun regardless of the others, or do you remove it from your hotbar because you know that whatever the situation is, someone will be pissed?

Yup, very rude. I do it to my bf to play around though <3.