My first bad experience with another player. :o

[AngeloFlick]

A very good piece of advice a user earlier in this thread gave was to make a Macro to tell the party at the beginning of dungeons, "Friend is new, we'll be watching cutscenes, sorry for any inconveniences, and any advice is welcome." I'm going to certainly put that to use for HW/SB Dungeons and Trials.

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I'm sorry, but I just cannot see this as an acceptable attitude. If people want to speed run, then they should use the Party Finder. Upon checking, neither C.M. NOR Praetoria are found using anything but the "Main Scenario" Duty Roulette.

If people are doing Main Scenario Duty Roulette, they should expect that many players are actually watching the story. Period. Lo' and behold, those are the only dungeons that CAN be accessed from the M.S. Duty Roulette.

In other words, you've got two viable choices:
1) Don't use M.S. Duty Roulette. Form your own Party instead if you want to farm it.
2) Expect that some people will want to view cutscenes. I'm not saying to wait for them, but don't expect them to not watch the scenes.

First thing-
you don't have to worry about warning the party about cutscene watching after CM or Prae because Squeenix never made that mistake again. You get a tiny intro cutscene for a new duty and a tiny intro cutscene for ending bosses and the rest are done either before you queue or after the duty is complete.

Secondly-
There is NO reason to "farm" these duties in party finder. Tomestone rewards and the huge EXP bonuses are only granted for doing it in the MSQ duty roulette. Speed running or no speed running, there is ZERO benefit for a veteran to running those duties in the party finder. Sucks for newbies but it's the way SE has set things up because no one, me included, would even touch that roulette with a 10 ft pole if it didn't have those rewards attached to it. Even with rewards and no cutscenes my husband practically has to twist my arm to get me to queue for it when we're leveling alt jobs, that's how sick I am of those duties. If I gotta wait for cutscenes I'm never touching it again.

Now what that guy did at the end of your CM run was uncalled for. When I run newbies can choose to watch cutscenes while we melt the dungeon or they can skip and see the fights. Either way doesn't matter to me because even synced the difficulty is trivial so we don't need the full group to clear. Sounds like the healer guy was just salty that he actually had to heal people since your friend wasn't there to split dmg as the OT.