Here lately, it seems like a lot more players are straight up either failing basic mechanics repeatedly, or trying to outright ignore them and hope for the best. Anybody else notice this happening a lot even in groups with no new players?

In Pool of Tribute, tanks seem to keep ignoring the orbs. Explanations always fall on deaf ears of course. I already know you're going to tell me, well, you should grab them as healer. I do whenever I can, but I can't always get them all if I don't have enough instant heals up to cover the ridiculous damage they do to non-tanks, or if I have to DPS hard to cover for low DPS groups. Lots of people either seem to run away with the stack marker or just sit there after getting knocked back too. Even had a BLM run away and end up killing several people after getting rescued back into the group.

Emanation: one word: VRIL. The amount of players who can't find the Duty Action button is just unbelievable. Most commonly they say they can't find it, or if they're on PS4, they don't know what buttons to push. Not a valid excuse considering its required before this point in the MSQ. I get it if they're new and nobody explains how to refill it, but if they know that and still fail 100% of the time, seriously?

Royal Menagerie: Surprisingly the least bad of the first three. Mostly just people getting overwhelmed by the amount of mechanics going on one after another and/or falling off repeatedly.

I haven't done the new one yet so can't say anything about that one so far.