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.