Can we please do something about this?

[Krotoan]

You do know that Dark Matter repairs add 100% durability to your gear, right? It doesn't set it to 100%. If your gear was at 10% durability, repairing it with Dark Matter would make it 110%.

Wasn't aware it "overcharged" it. Honestly haven't used that feature much since I responsibly repair as often as I can at the NPC =] .. the other points still stand though.

[Selova]

Snip.

You make some good and sensible points, I guess that even if a system were in place to try to prevent it people that intentionally grief others will always find a way around it to do so. I concede.

[Aylis]

We need both the debuffs and the option to repair other people back.

and make the debuff icon large enough to fill the screen. Translucent enough to see and move around, but visibly annoying enough to make people want to repair their gear to get rid of the thing.

[dayspring83]

You keep saying that vote kick should not be the only option...well that's true except when the person is clearly trolling you.

What reasonable person doesn't either leave and eat the penalty or fix their gear? Let alone call you an elitist for pointing out that their gear was broken?

I agree with the first few replies...vote kick and move on. There is already a warning that says your gear is broken before joining the instance.

[Paladinleeds]

And just so people can't refuse to let others repair their gear (in case of trolls), make it so that crafters can force-repairs on others. I also know this sounds like it could be abused to steal others' gil, so to prevent this, make it so that gear cannot be repaired once it goes above 100% durability, so that a crafter can only repair a person's gear once.

And if they refuse to let someone repair their gear, they're being a nuisance to the party and would likely come under harassment. Kick and move on. Someone who genuinely forgot to repair their gear will accept it, move on no problems. But if they're refusing to allow someone to repair their gear and you force it on them, they'll just troll in other ways and you'll end up having to kick anyway.

that is a rude way to go about it. I would have called you an E too. Just saying, try to be nicer next time rather then a jerk. Way you went about it put them on the spot causing them to get defensive.

And then how do you approach it? No matter how you say it, someone is gonna take offence. I try to be nice about things myself but eventually you're going to hit the "Political Correctness Gone Mad" syndrome.

when you don't know why their gear was broke. Or if the queue pop'ed before they could repair.

Asking questions helps.

See earlier point, doesn't matter if you ask questions in the nicest possible way, someone will take offence to it and call you an E. Again, you run the risk of having political correctness gone mad. Could she have phrased it better? Sure. But she clearly explained what she thought was the issue. That doesn't warrant being called an elitist.

[BigRed5392]

I literally said word for word, and i quote: "So, going to go out on a limb here and assume your gear is broken heals, with 9k hp and all." word for word exactly how i said it. I only brought up the wasting the groups time when he called me a elitest for no reason. I never said one thing regarding the quality of his gear.

that is a rude way to go about it. I would have called you an E too. Just saying, try to be nicer next time rather then a jerk. Way you went about it put them on the spot causing them to get defensive. when you don't know why their gear was broke. Or if the queue pop'ed before they could repair.

Asking questions helps.

[BigRed5392]

You keep saying that vote kick should not be the only option...well that's true except when the person is clearly trolling you.

What reasonable person doesn't either leave and eat the penalty or fix their gear? Let alone call you an elitist for pointing out that their gear was broken?

I agree with the first few replies...vote kick and move on. There is already a warning that says your gear is broken before joining the instance.

can't say what they said wasn't rude either....

[Nora_of_Mira]

can't say what they said wasn't rude either....

you're rude. see how easy that is?

[Mysterysword]

For all of the people saying we should just kick and move on: I don't like getting slapped with a 4-hour timer on vote kicking when it's easily possible to run into more than 1 awful troll, or just plain awful person, in that time window.

And frankly, I know this is petty, but I just want to find a way to personally punish trolls that the OP described. Even if it's something as small as taking their gil away.

[alimdia]

can't say what they said wasn't rude either....

I feel like you're being a contrarian for the sake of it, the point of the topic is that the system allows people to queue to duties with broken gear.