Ever had to just give up on a static?

[AncientCrystal]

I just recently gave up on my static that was trying to prog O12S. They had been stuck on M/F Savage for over a month. 3 of us (including me) have been to Final Omega a few times and we knew what we were doing.

But the overall the group as a whole couldn't get it done. Either the healers didn't know how to shield/heal for Fire III or the tanks was mess up the last phase, or we just didn't even manage to get LB3 up at times which I found absurd.

When I would try to bring up issues during non-raiding times, the group never had much to say in the Discord channel almost like they were offended I'd try to have a discussion about problems. And I always got the sense that people just never tried to do more research as to how to do some mechanics better. So week after week we were just wasting our time and I got sick of it.

Anyway, anyone else been through this? It sucks giving up a group, but man it was going freaking nowhere.

[TitaniaZero]

I haven't done it for this game, and the previous one made it that way. Yet in WoW I did have a team that raided some difficult things. But well after a couple months of no progress on the first boss of the hardest difficulty of the expansion's last tier I and several others simply threw up our hands in frustration and left. That of course moved me from raider... to casual person and its been that way since 2014...

But ya, I've felt your frustration and pain once before.

[DrWho2010]

i had to give up on a static back for neo exdeath. pugged my clear for that one and that was a pain in the butt. they just couldn't get it together when it came to surviving thru to grand cross omega and then they would screw it up completely and never bothered to research it better. plus the bard in our party refused to keep up on msq and never unlocked the 24 man so he could get upgrade items easier.

[AncientCrystal]

When you don't even want to keep up on MSQ that's bad in my book lol

[ChaseNetwork]

I'm having similar, significant issues with my static. Took five week to get our first clear of O10S. Certain members weren't present for the clear, so they got pissy, and their irl ties to members that did clear cause them to become depressed. So we weren't able to even try to form up to clear this weekend. I've been trying to PUG it, but there's alway just enough baddies.

[Hakuro89]

Had a static like that in Midas. We took two swings at Hummelfaust and after failing the DPS check twice, the popular consensus was we needed Sephirot weapons. Spent raid nights for the next two weeks wiping on him. By the time I had left only myself and the leader had cleared, and only because we had done it on our own time.

[Nora_of_Mira]

When I would try to bring up issues during non-raiding times, the group never had much to say in the Discord channel almost like they were offended I'd try to have a discussion about problems.

this is a major red flag and should be the main thing you prioritize moving forward into forming a new static. A static should be formed of like-minded folks who ALL want to learn together and progress together, it simply will not work if 3/8 people want to just bash their head with little to no communication. I'm sorry for your struggles but these folks are wasting your time and their own. I hope you have better luck finding a new static with a shared interest.

[Crushnight]

Yea i had this problem in the past at the beginning of SB the static i was in still had people in 290 gear for o1s i wasn't happy my mood got worse as it took 4 weeks to beat o1s and i had switched my main from brd to nin to provide more rdps i now love nin despite clunkyness and play it way better, and then during o2s had 3 people leave, i just gave up by the Monday following week got o2s kill which pissed off the other 4 members because got kill without them despite not affecting group loot. so i left spent next week learning and killing o3s and started work on getting Neo Exdeath kill when met current static who are much closer to skill level but more importantly want to improve themselves.

[Mansion]

I think that's the "static killer", when people have different expectations of the progress. Some want efficient and quick progress, some are slower and don't mind skipping a few weeks. In the end, each position if ok, the problem is trying to force one in another.

I was in a static with that configuration. Some were hard players from 2.0, some were recent players. Some wanted to go fast, some did not mind. In the end, each raid night was getting heavier and heavier on the vocal chat becaue of that. So I just left because that's the number one thing that makes me run : bad atmosphere. Especially when you work all day and you play FFXIV to relax a bit but end up getting in different kinds of clashes...

It's difficult to find 8 persons that have the same playstyle and state of mind I think.

[Coupain]

It's difficult to find 8 persons that have the same playstyle and state of mind I think.

That's why we really need "4 players savage raiding" in this game or at least really hard dungeons replayable.

Easier to create static, easier to quit, easier to pug with raid finder, easier to make it in a FC ( lots of FC have 3, 4 players who plays every day), less people up chance to less drama ( not always true), more "user-friendly" etc