Unwritten rules thread

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

From the PvP side of the house:

1. No quitting. I've turned too many "losing" games around, and I'm not about to roll over for anyone. It's important to know when you're beaten, but never quit.
2. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. This pairs well with #1.
3. Be humble, even in badassery. I strive to stand out as an awesome player, but I haven't forgotten when I was just a nobody getting no heals and no support.
4. Support your team. Friends, rivals, even bitter enemies; if we're on the same team, I have your back.
5. Help where you can, teach when you see it's needed, and allow room for failure when failure will be a better teacher.
6. In the event you make a mistake, own it and learn from it. Not everything I do is a great idea that works either.
7. Be a good sport, but if you earn it, go ahead and celebrate.
8. Salt, hurt feelings, and bad attitudes: leave it on the field or in the arena. No sense burning bridges when everything else in game calls for cooperation.

And on a very serious note in general: Reach out to people and pay close attention to changes in their behavior. Simply being there for some people when they needed it has prevented much worse things from happening this year.

[SaitoHikari]

If you're going to main a DPS, you might as well bring your A game to the table and demolish everything. It's the best kind of thanks you can give to your tanks and healers for even making the run possible in the first place. That and it sends them on their way to queuing for something else faster.

[Canadane]

-Politeness and courtesy go a long way. But it isn't mutually exclusive from having expectations and a set of standards.

-When I'm tank, and if a healer regens me before I pull, I'll manually deactivate it.

-If the tank is too slow and my Greased Lightning is about to fall off, I will make all attempts at pulling ahead to keep it going. It's more important than the tank having initial enmity. If I'm the tank and a monk or whatever dps does this, they're likely getting my commendation.

-Everybody has sprint. Use it.

That's all that really comes to mind.

[Destati]

1. Keep an overly-generous amount of glamour prisms of every kind on hand at all times. (Will likely be amended come 4.2)
2. Keep an overly-generous amount of dye pots of certain colors on hand at all times.
3. Screaming and otherwise making distressed noises IRL improves healing abilities to a degree.
4. Screaming and otherwise making distressed noises IRL improves tanking abilities to a degree.
5. Screaming and otherwise making distressed noises IRL grants a passive AOE-dodging buff.

[Cakekizyy]

1. You ask me to heal at your own risk. I have killed more players in this game than any other healer ever in this game... and I have never queued PvP as a healer... >.>

2. Friendly fire isn't.

3. Suppressing fire doesn't

4. If brute force doesn't work you aren't using enough.

5. Make sure that cute girl isn't really an effeminate looking guy before you start hitting on her

6. Never play a pirate when you are sober

7. Chew my food before I eat it... *stares at tasty lala*

Helicopters have been described as nothing more than 50,000 parts flying in close formation. It is the mechanics responsibility to keep that formation as tight as possible.

[Stealthyboy]

Rule 1: Don't Be A Dick.

Rule 2: When joining a party, give them a hearty Ahoy. When leaving a dungeon, thank the party for the run.

Rule 3: If there's downtime in a duty (lifts in copperbell come to mind, or if a party member goes afk), try to keep the others entertained with emotes.

Rule 4: If setting up a party finder, ask anyone who joins if there's anything they need from the duty, and be considerate.

Rule 5: If I see a Lalafell in an adorable glamour, I'm gonna pet it.

Rule 6: As a RDM, if someone dies it's my job to get them up. Only if I'm out of MP should the healer need to.

Rule 7: Don't stand in the stupid.

Rule 8: Unless everyone in the party is a complete nincompoop, always give a commendation.

[Alaray]

Here's some I try to follow for myself:

- Always try to be friendly and welcoming in a partied up, group environment or any environment where it's applicable. I'll usually, if not always, greet my party and thank them for their time.

- If I'm tanking, or healing, I'll often choose to take the responsibility for a wipe even if it's technically someone else's mistake -- thus far, it just helps reduce teammates tilting, or performing worse. If someone is making a wipe-the-group error multiple times, I'll point it out (or like, missing a mechanic, I'll just explain it to make sure the player's aware since people do forget/are new to content).

- Generally, I'll pull aggro off people. But if someone's pulling everything, or is insulting, demanding and so forth, I'll gladly ditch the run and take the deserter. If you don't want to play as a team, I don't want to play with you.

- Admittedly, I do pull big sometimes when I probably shouldn't because I do get curious and want to see if I can survive it. I'm sorry to healers I stress out because of this.

- Try to make sure I'm having fun (since there's no point in continuing if I'm not, though if I'm committed to something I'll see it through), and try to keep a friendly, fun atmosphere. Sometimes I'm just really quiet in runs, but that's generally just me feeling tired (I'm more introverted, so excessive communication does wear me down after a while).

- And I always try to be friendly/helpful to new players if I come across them. Sure, they could be an alt of someone's, but I'd rather let whoever the player is learn how to perform their role in low level content than bum-rush through everything as fast as possible. I also try to be mindful of my aggro generation as a synced down RDM when a newer tank is leading, last thing I'd want to do is discourage someone from continuing to tank in the game (or heal).

- I also try not to type if I feel frustrated/in a general bad mood. Random folks in a videogame don't deserve that experience. I'll also go do something more relaxing if DF has me a bit frustrated, though I haven't really been too frustrated with DF in a long time (majority of players I run into are quite friendly and joys to run with!)

- Since I also roleplay, my basic unwritten rule for that is: If *I* want to interact with someone, I'll send a whisper. And if someone wants to interacted with *me* I'd love to receive a whisper, just in case I'm alt-tabbed and not actually paying attention to my game. I also try to type as much as the other person involved, so the work put into the storytelling isn't too one-sided. (Granted, I also happily answer questions and stuff if people whisper me with curiosities)

- I don't PvP much in this game, but I did *heavily* in other games and over the years I just kind of... go with the flow. I don't care if it's a loss, a win, just so long as the game itself is fun and engaging. I also try not to BM players, I got all that anger out of my system back when I played Archeage and created a killing ground in a low level zone (to be fair, I let them all climb on my land boat and took them up into trees ok).

But that's generally about it, kinda just boils down to "I don't really want to be a dick to other players, because I know it's miserable to have players who are dicks in the party." coupled with "everyone was new at some point."

[Myrhn]

1. Dont piss off your healers.

2. Dont stress your healers.

3. If u are out of the AoE heal, u can heal yourself.

4. Learn the fights. Dying to a mechanic is fine but look what u did wrong and try to figure it out by yourself not just expect someone else to spoon feed u how is done.

[ko_]

I got just one. WAIT for the new person PLEASE! If they didn't say anything whatever, but if they do PLEASE for the love of god understand that. Twice today I was locked out the last boss and it sucks. Really kills the mood and saps any happy thoughts I had in the entire dungeon once the cutscene is over to see that stupid blackest clear wall you can't pass.

[KaivaC]

Speaking of bosses, unless you are the tank, do not pull the boss - especially if the tank is waiting for TP or CDs to regenerate, or if they are waiting on another player's CDs to restore. Doubly so if it was requested by a party member. Unless it's unreasonable like a fresh restore on Hallowed ground, Living Dead, or something similar. Tanks shouldn't be holding up boss fights in dungeons over that. If you pull the boss ahead of the tank, do not be surprised if the tank and healer run the hell away from the boss room and do not take any actions to help you.