How to Handle RP Raiding Players

[Judah_Brandt]

To be honest they probably are a nice person. Except I don't think I was in the mood for it. I can't tell someone how to play the game, but I'm sorry there is no amount of cross class abilities that are going to make up for Wanderer's Minuet or the other advanced skills they missed out on going up from 30-60, plus the loss of damage from not being able to equip BRD-specific gear.

As you said, however, could be anybody I guess. Honestly, though, just as a player may choose to play the game however they want, the fact that it unavoidably is an absolute detriment can't be argued against. If I showed up in the instance, then equipped level 10 gear because "that's my play style" it is a detriment to the party. It just is. It isn't that I fault a person for finding a way to play the game that is fun, it just disrupts my game because their play style is an active detriment. I don't care if they want to roleplay a magical fairy Knight who needs to kill the vundu to save their imaginary wife, that isn't a detriment. I don't care if they spam the chat in-character, that isn't a detriment. Actively entering into content weaker than you actually should on purpose is a detriment.

[Urthdigger]

That's not a roleplayer. That's an asshole.

[StouterTaru]

That's not a roleplayer. That's an asshole.

Maybe he's roleplaying as a troll.

[Judah_Brandt]

Maybe he's roleplaying as a troll.

Like a... Trolleplayer?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Like a... Trolleplayer?

Considering that we got people who do the same thing in forums and stick to it like a craft, I would not be surprised.

[RiceisNice]

I've been grouped with that person, though they actually did pretty well, used a lot of cross class skills that made up for the lack of job crystal. was overall an enjoyable run with em.... Granted you could have met someone else entirely but yeah

The cross skills archer gets adds nothing to dps. Everything else would have been things like stinkskin, cures and protect. So that statement is a bit of an oxymoron; those skills do not make up for the loss of extra dex, loss of WM and dps skills, and the loss of for req.