Things to think about before you call someone "Bad"

[Vidu]

Yeah, the 300 commendations so he's a pro guy. He'll be back; he changed his name and I sincerely doubt he learned anything from his second go through the forums.

Granted, he was making progress. He was using shield lob only his first time in a normal dungeon, halone combo only his second in Rabinastre, and JUST MAYBE he'll be using royal authority AND a cooldown for his third run-in. IF the Seven will it.

Exactly. People like that are the reason that I dont believe in the whole "only give advice when they ask you for it"-thing - because the people who need "advice" (or rather: an explantion of the most simple and basic things) the most are also the ones most oblivious to know about their desperate need to look up a tutorial or a job guide. They've cleared everything - or rather: got carried through everything - so they must be doing GREAT! They havent read their tooltips and took a minute to think about what they've read, so they'll be the last ones to (self)reflect after a wipe and ask themself "Could I have caused or prevented this?"

They need to get the message of "You're not doing fine, sorry" - personally I prefer to deliver that in the form of a polite message, either with exact advice or a general "Please look up a guide on your job".
The method of silent kicks might work aswell.

...even though, thinking about it now, we both might be wrong - they're not even reading their tooltips, so why would they read my advice... and they're not asking themselves if they made a mistake or could have done better after a wipe, so they probably wont selfreflect after a votekick either (funny enough that guy complained in his first thread that he wasnt kicked sooner - he was kicked at the last boss and complained about his time being wasted. So... if he'd gotten kicked sooner, he would have just jumped right into the next party, learning nothing)... at least after a kick they're not your problem anymore.

[Penthea]

I once sneezed in the middle of a savage fight and it lead to a wipe. I ended up going in the wrong direction and caused a horrific domino effect. My static thought it was hilarious because they heard the huge sneeze and saw the disaster that followed, but before I could even finish typing "sorry I sneezed and it made me turn the wrong way" in party chat to explain this to the pug he called me a f-ing idiot. However he also thought it was funny when he read it. We pulled again and killed the boss nice and smooth.

I get that wiping sucks and silly mistakes are tiresome, but some people really need to chill out. Don't be so quick to assume someone's mistake is because they're a bad player. Sometimes things can happen that are totally out of a person's control. People get lagspikes, get startled by something irl, their cat could have unplugged their keyboard...or they sneeze

It's not difficult to wait a few moments for an explanation before you react with harsh words.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

No bad is sadly not a reference, insults on the internet are something the average player has normalized. And every day that passes you keep digging yourselves deeper in the sewers you are all creating. You don't go around insulting because people deserve it, you do it because you can and because there's almost complete impunity when doing so online.

I've heard a lot of people in this thread mention that "people are too sensitive". It's absolutely the other way around. You guys have no business approaching strangers and offering friendly advice in the form of harassment, because that's the only real problem here.

You accuse us of being too sensitive yet in a completely neutral post your response has generalized an entire community, insulted said community on multiple occasions despite being only a handful of sentences and essentially blamed them for all of this game's problems. Nevermind the fact you have people at level 70 who let the MT die because they haven't figured out Cure I isn't going to work on a 60k buster.

Ironically, all your post has accomplished is to highlight your own hypocrisy.

[Tint]

I don’t think anyone is opposed to that kind of advice it’s the “LOL this DRK is using grit what a **** player” type “advice” that has soured people.

Hm yeah ^^;

Yes, it took a while and despite someone here saying that I had no business in doing max level dungeons I actually learned how to play DRK. And I can tell that from my personal experience that playing tank in max level dungeons is nothing you can learn in leveling dungeons, because of the concept of mass pulling.
Also when you don't set the bar higher than your skill, how will you be able to reach that higher bar?

I had never much trouble with holding enmity, I read a guide, I played WHM before for 2 years, so I had plenty of time watching other tanks and I had a basic understanding of how to play a tank. However, enmity, dps, defense, resource management and mechanics took a while to execute at the same time. I had especially trouble with the defense part ^^;

I don't have a parser myself, because I am playing on PS4, but FFlogs says I pulled 3000 - 3200 dps today in Ridorana, while maintanking in Grit. I don't think I am doing too bad.

I know I am good enough to play the DRK without Grit, but I am getting too nervous. Maybe if I had a static of friendly people where I feel safe, but not with random people.

For example I am going to a special dentist for people with anxiety - not because I am worried about the treatment, but because I am worried about the dentist, the person.
Yeah, it is kind of ironic playing bad (using Grit) as a sefety net against people, however, I am staying away from ex trials and savage raids and it works for me. Except of the feeling bad part because I know that I underperform.

I know how to hold enmity, doing mass pulls, use defense cd's, placing enemys and what all my skills do and when I have to use them. So maybe I am not that kind of bad player you are talking about, or am I? At least I never got kicked :O

[Aquaslash]

1. Are they a new player?

2. Did they recently change their UI/Binds or both?

3. Are they having a bad day or are they feeling sick?

Could be any of these things or more preventing someone from performing well. and to be fair most of the time I find it is.

Before you post a response in these forums perhaps you should remember this is only a video game. Get a grip people. Seriously.

Stop being bad

[Nestama]

The moral of the story is bads gonna bad and any fight that doesn't have a hard enrage will fall down if you throw enough pixel bodies at it.

I honestly feel the 24-man bosses should have, at minimum, a 13-15 minute enrage timer. Throwing bodies at a boss until you win 20+ minutes later is not good.

Famfrit: A wall of water slowly closing into the middle of the arena. If it reaches the middle, players take continuous damage (like Tidal Wave).
Belias: Maybe have a floor break every 30 seconds (you'll know what will break as it'll use the clock AoE marker).
Construct 7: Math Quiz returns one last time, however your HP does not reset back to what it should be.
Yiazmat: His 10% phase is kind of an enrage. His Rake-around-the-Rosies is almost (if not, guaranteed) a one shot.

[Vahlnir]

I honestly feel the 24-man bosses should have, at minimum, a 13-15 minute enrage timer. Throwing bodies at a boss until you win 20+ minutes later is not good.

Famfrit: A wall of water slowly closing into the middle of the arena. If it reaches the middle, players take continuous damage (like Tidal Wave).
Belias: Maybe have a floor break every 30 seconds (you'll know what will break as it'll use the clock AoE marker).
Construct 7: Math Quiz returns one last time, however your HP does not reset back to what it should be.
Yiazmat: His 10% phase is kind of an enrage. His Rake-around-the-Rosies is almost (if not, guaranteed) a one shot.

These ideas are borderline diabolical.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I honestly feel the 24-man bosses should have, at minimum, a 13-15 minute enrage timer. Throwing bodies at a boss until you win 20+ minutes later is not good.

Famfrit: A wall of water slowly closing into the middle of the arena. If it reaches the middle, players take continuous damage (like Tidal Wave).
Belias: Maybe have a floor break every 30 seconds (you'll know what will break as it'll use the clock AoE marker).
Construct 7: Math Quiz returns one last time, however your HP does not reset back to what it should be.
Yiazmat: His 10% phase is kind of an enrage. His Rake-around-the-Rosies is almost (if not, guaranteed) a one shot.

Death Gaze in Dun Scaith actually does. And it's a wonderful wake up call for people. Not to mention, it puts some responsibility on the DPS whereas now you just throw bodies and eventually win. Sadly, it's this type of design which encourages complacency.

[Aquaslash]

I have social anxiety, I even retired because of it.

For some reason I don't understand myself, I am playing DRK. I really like the class. But the tankxiety is strong, even after playing it for 3 years now. I know it's considered bad gameplay, but I really need the comfort zone of my tankstance. I drop it occasionally at some dungeon bosses when I know them pretty well, but I usually don't have a good feeling about it.

Real talk, the worst that's gonna happen if you stay in tank stance is your damage will be low. In 99% of cases, it will not prevent you from clearing, even in EXs and some savages. If I'm hitting enrages, I'm gonna be looking at the DPS first and foremost, and then I'll be checking deaths and such.

It is sub optimal but I imagine you'd stay away from the content where it truly makes or breaks a run anyway so don't stress over it.

[DamianFatale]

1. If they are a new player it's not hard for them to say they are a new player.

2. If they changed their UI/Binds then they should maybe get used to these changes before doing a dungeon.

3. If you are sick then I would be resting trying to get better instead of playing FFXIV or if I'm having a bad day then I will maybe run with friends.

What's with this forum trying to find ways to say people playing bad is fine?

I’m busy with work a lot. If I’m sick, and I can’t fall back asleep, I’m going to use that time in FFXIV.