Lore Incentive Is Ruining Duty Roulette

[Leigaon]

Nothing wrong with that, but they move too fast! I usually have to waste my lightspeed just to give them protect, and stoneskin, and I'm tired of it.

It's usually accepted, that during the start of a fight you do your protect and at least stoneskin the tank. I'll give protect and Stoneskin the tank. If he runs, I go and can get the others along the way. If they run before I can give it to them, then I accept the fact they don't think they need it and we keep on going. If we live, we live. If you die..maybe that stoneskin could have helped. Lots of factors play into it. By no means am I saying you're wrong to feel upset. There's nothing wrong with preparing for battle, and as a white mage I can do the whole group, as an AST / SCH, I have to do each individual one. If that's the case I usually just do the tank. Sometimes they stay around and I get the others.

Though we are a team, and as a team people need to accept there's a chain and there are bottlenecks..and if you try to jump ahead, you're going to have a bad time. I've had tanks who sprint right after and start pulling and they die because I'm not even done casting, yet they're already way in and taking on a lot of mobs. In which case..you pizza when you should have French fried, and you're gunna have a bad time.

I would argue though it's not so much the lore that is the issue, it's the people and the way things are set up..but that's a much deeper and different issue.

I'm slowly learning more about AST too, so I wish you luck!