Quote Originally Posted by Dragonkat View Post
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You're getting awful angry about people wondering why someone would choose to play their job poorly. If I went into an instance and "3/4 group members" told me they didn't want to hit AOE buttons but only single target, I'd definitely think they were playing wrong. I'd leave and not try and force the issue, but you are basically advocating people not use their toolkits to their full potential and be immune from backlash because of it. Everything is degrees I understand, but at a basic level, a tank not pulling at least more than one group is failing at his job as surely as a healer who doesn't press his heal buttons and lets people die, or a DPS doesn't AOE to do more damage so tank/healer resources avoid strain. None of the tanking cooldowns are required for single pulls, and there's so little damage being taken they do practically nothing anyway. Personally I think a tank player should be capable of more than hitting their tank stance and grabbing 3 mobs while they do a watered down DPS rotation. Nobody is saying you can't practice while you learn, nobody is perfect when they start, but if you're at max level then yeah, I'm gonna be curious why you want to slow pull, as even mediocre players by that point can do more than single pulls (I know because that's me!). I'm not going to report you or call you names, but I will usually make a mental note to avoid the person in the future if possible, because if 80 levels aren't enough to teach you how to pull more than a single group of mobs, I suspect you're not really trying. There's no hypocrisy about this though, because I'd be just as likely to avoid an AST who never used cards or a SAM that doesn't AOE.

Nobody is going to crucify you, but you are going to make people angry if you deliberately slow the pace of the whole party for your own whims (hint: I didn't say CAPABILITIES). Most people will understand completely if you say you're learning, but if you just try and say you're doing it for "fun" they're going to get mad and frankly rightly so: you're now putting your time above their time.

Before you say it's the same the other way around: people who want to go slow have an EXCELLENTLY designed option: Trusts. Instant, 0 queue times, cool story interactions and being able to battle with the NPCs, I pull wall to wall and I still love doing the occasional Trust dungeon because of how cool they are. Everything a slow puller wants with absolutely no inconvenience to anybody else. Someone who just wants to get an expert roulette done real fast doesn't have any alternative. If you have an option that caters to you but CHOOSE not to use it, instead opting to inconvenience other people who have NO options, then yeah, you're being selfish. But you're right, I don't pay your sub, and can't stop you from acting how you want, but if you keep making other people miserable you can't be surprised when they try to do the same.