Elitist Attitudes in Expert Roulette

[LunaFaye]

So you use a parser to decide who to kick? The official rules don't apply to you, yet your arbitrary rules apply to everyone else?

This is the reason SE won't add a proper parser anytime soon (or ever). This exact attitude.

No I don't but if some blm decides that they can't be bothered to do adds in a regular dungeon, than yes I will go that route. 1 point off the numbers you should be pulling, 1 miss, 1 none crit, spamming fire 1 instead of IV and you're out. People pretend to be assholes I am actually one. I don't take excuses from blms not wanting to do the adds but yet can't get us through phases of the bosses either because their dmg sucks. I know you don't like it, but I don't like people being kicked for no reason and then some people coming here and saying "well I can't do adds because I play blm". Get over yourself and play something else.

[Garotte14]

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I tend to agree. I'm not really one for kicking people in 99% of circumstances. I will always attempt to politely inform or train someone. If they are willing to take any criticism, then I feel good about it and hopefully they appreciate the help. It's usually only when I'm told to mind my business or, "I play how I want," that I'll initiate a kick.

But to your point. There is no excuse to not do mechanics. I main BLM and I'm a hardcore raider. In my static, we can work out which mechanics I should ignore for the better of my damage and the team as a whole, but when you're in a dungeon pug you have no excuse. If you are purposefully handicapping the run because you refuse to do a mechanic, then you are the problem and should be removed. Leylines is no excuse to not attack an add. If you have that mindset in an MMO, then you deserve every vote kick you get.

[Shurrikhan]

So you use a parser to decide who to kick? The official rules don't apply to you, yet your arbitrary rules apply to everyone else?

This is the reason SE won't add a proper parser anytime soon (or ever). This exact attitude.

I could do the same thing by looking at their rotations, given that I also play the job, and if I've had at least the observed player's rate of burning down mobs, percent enmity within a given raid dps (so, chunk of that damage dealt), and completion of mechanics by which to have a basis for thinking that my judgement is valid. As a tank or another dps, it's very easy to tell if someone isn't doing what their health pool (ilvl unless vit-acc'ed) says they ought to be. If they're failing to hold up their share, they become a candidate, in my mind, for a kick. That said, I'm very, very unlikely to kick someone just for low output as long as (1) they're willing to take and use advice and (2) we can still clear eventually.

All the parser does is make performance apparent to people not experienced with the job being observed, so that far fewer people are making baseless assumptions (which can still get people kicked just as easily, though less fairly). If one's looking only at the numbers, and not how the lower-performing player is doing all the mechanics, carrying the higher-output player, then you have an issue similar to the narrow-minded "that's not my role" complaints or the like (most often given by those without parsers, or parsing only themselves instead of looking at how they can most boost raid damage as a whole).

[VargasVermillion]

So you use a parser to decide who to kick? The official rules don't apply to you, yet your arbitrary rules apply to everyone else?

This is the reason SE won't add a proper parser anytime soon (or ever). This exact attitude.

Or people could take the criticism and learn to play their class properly, this mentality of "I play how I want" is why they are making classes easier in 4.0.

[Yuella]

there's no reason to kick someone unless you're in danger not clearing the content.

[Nekotee]

I I can't be bothered to run with people that half ass their job and then sit there, finding excuses why they didn't do the adds. Leyline in your case... dumbest thing I've ever heard, you know where the adds spawn, position yourself that you can do both.

That mean you did not read what i wrote

I said I do not afford to go out my leyline to push them
As Blm i insta kill them with Fire IV and it's easy to place myself on a side to have them all in sight

So as i said, i help the killing (especially mogsun) but no in the middle of leylined full Fire enochian no i won't run around scathing thing out of the regen circle
All healer have blizzard II which is the best in this situation

[XiXiQ]

People pretend to be assholes I am actually one.

well, thanks for clearing that up.

[Archaell]

well, thanks for clearing that up.

You are looking at it the wrong way.

Without the parser everyone who doesn't do mechanics gets kicked.

With the parser Luna is willing to ignore this if the players are doing good enough dps.

So Luna is actually just pretending to be the A-hole and the parser is saving people from kicks instead of causing them.

[Nyghtmarerobu]

Just adding my 2 gil..

I take a good look at my parser.

Parsers can be great tools, but I'm going to let you know right now, that if you kick people, and somebody decides to report you, you could be banned for votekick abuse. Just because someone isn't preforming as well as they could and is legitemtly trying, doesn't mean they deserve the boot.

So you use a parser to decide who to kick? The official rules don't apply to you, yet your arbitrary rules apply to everyone else? This is the reason SE won't add a proper parser anytime soon (or ever). This exact attitude.

This 100%. We keep asking SE for an in-game parse, yet, when people use it for things like this, I can understand why they keep telling us no...

Or people could take the criticism and learn to play their class properly, this mentality of "I play how I want" is why they are making classes easier in 4.0.

This is true, but at the same time, that is up to the person to decide if they want to become better or not. You can't force people to want to get better.

there's no reason to kick someone unless you're in danger not clearing the content.

Yay someone got it.

[WeekendSoja]

You are looking at it the wrong way.

Without the parser everyone who doesn't do mechanics gets kicked.

With the parser Luna is willing to ignore this if the players are doing good enough dps.

So Luna is actually just pretending to be the A-hole and the parser is saving people from kicks instead of causing them.

I just want to thank this person for excellent reading comprehension! I post stuff like Luna's comment often and people don't even regard the posts context or content for that matter, just read it with their own shallow understanding and hit the "attack" button lol.

Honestly, seeing this post almost made me want to cry a little, because this person proves that a really small amount of FF14's forum users aren't complete illiterates.