Things to think about before you call someone "Bad"

[van_arn]

Last night I talked to my friend who left the game because of the toxicity in Dungeons and this is pretty much what she had to say.

"I watched all the videos on how to tank, I used all the current rotations, and made sure I watched videos on the fights before hand, then end result was people still telling me to kill myself or threatening to find me and my family and hurt them. I finally deciphered that "Bad" = you don't play the way I want, or I just really want to harass someone.

And honestly if you have to watch movies and learn sql formulas it isn't a game...it's a interactive spreadsheet with three frat bros who want to show their power over you. That's okay I can play FFXV and not have to pay to be threatened and degraded."

And since I have heard something similar to this more times than I can count...I'll just say nice job FFXIV has lost it's awesome community status to become League of Legends, and this is why we can't have nice things.

I know there is going to be several of us who plan to bring it up at Fanfest this year.....but if SE want's to emulate Blizzard to the point it wants it's terrible community nothing will be done.....where is GM Dave when you need him.

1 hotbar. One hotbar is all that is necessary to go 2.0-4.0 on a paladin. It's not optimal, but it's the basics and enough to handle any dungeon without getting chainkicked. It is one of the simplest jobs to play at a base level.

I genuinely don't know what to tell someone that can't handle this. There are bigger issues than the class if these skills are used so poorly people keep kicking or complaining.

It's "wrong" to not use Royal Authority, but that in itself isn't enough to get you kicked. The fact that you're a tank means you're given more leeway than any other class; people tend to avoid kicking them due to the replacement times.

You don't even need to watch videos. If you communicate with your party, you have boss strategies on tap. And people, as a rule, go out of their way to mollycoddle tanks that say they're doing their first run.

Hell, you even have the necessary tools and survivability here to do mass pulls all the way through -- healer permitting. So you'd make good time.


Consider the above, and "honestly if you have to watch movies and learn sql formulas it isn't a game" is absolute nonsense.