Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

[Darsien]

You are making them play as they don't wish to play. That's the downside. The same could be said for the reverse of course but all parties have the same option to just drop or to kick. Both of which should be taken as simply a difference of playstyles IMO. No hard feelings, not personal just "I do not wish to play with you for whatever reason".

Also.. why are you coming off so sarcastically? "what joy!" indeed.

So they INTENTIONALLY want to play poorly? Most other games call that trolling. Are you seriously advocating for trolling, or what's your game here?

I would say that micromanaging a random dragoon for a normal fight is getting far too involved in what other people are doing. Did you pass? Cool. None of the rest should be your concern. Did you fail? If you did THEN it's time to address where the failure is coming from and if super obvious , E.G. the dragoon is visibly not using skills or standing in things, that person can be voted out. You should not get overly involved with how someone else is playing if the content is being cleared in DF. If it is not being cleared to your liking you can remove yourself from the situation and/or give a non-accusatory suggestion. If you NEED things done a certain way make your own parties and don't rely on the game to bring you "good" players.

Ah, so doing absolutely nothing for half an instance is acceptable to you, huh? Hey everyone. Tell me another team game where going AFK for half of the overall time you're playing with the AFK person is acceptable.

It's not, dude. You should be ashamed. For the hypothetical Dragoon player of course. The one who totally wasn't you but was completely a made up random Dragoon. Can't kick an AFK player if you clear in the first pull and carry the AFK player. They received a reward they only half deserved. =(

I have leveled every single job and 2 alts and I can say the amount of noticeably bad players I've had to endure has been 2-3 a week (capping all tomes, doing all weekly lockouts) at most. So personal experiences may vary ( I am on sarg which I hear is notoriously "git gud") . I don't care if healers don't DPS, I don't care if tanks single pull, I don't care if other DPS single target. All of these things will still pass any DF content. If I want things done efficiently I'll make sure that happens myself. If I run a roulette I'm agreeing to deal with whatever I get. Someone is that bad? Kick em or leave. How would you take someone telling you that you were playing your character wrong? Probably not half as well as you say you would.

Oh, dear sweet summer child, I'm fully aware you don't care about anything. In addition, bad players can't tell when they're playing with bad players because they're stuck in a feedback loop. Or so I've heard. I would NEVER criticize another player.

Also, another advantage of learning to play well and do my part: I never get told I'm playing wrong because I'm always playing right. Gee. Sounds like it'd be a blessing for... SOME players.



A simple reminder: It's a team game. As a member of a team, likely random ones, YOU, YES YOU, READER, have a RESPONSIBILITY to know what you're doing. That hypothetical Dragoon didn't, and you wanna know what happened? 3 players died at the end of the fight, an end that they never would of seen if our hypothetical Dragoon did their part. No one likes dying. They had a net negative impact on 3 players and didn't even know it. =(

Don't be like the hypothetical Dragoon. Do your part. Let the dirt tank the floor instead of your teammates.