Can we use ACT to recognize who is griefing the party and report them afterwards?

[TheMightyMollusk]

"Different playstyles".

[Artemiz]

No you can't because the very use of 3rd party tools is a ban worthy offense. If you quote ACT logs you are just proving you use it.

[NeoDivinity]

I just had a run with a dragoon who has 7 classes at level 80 but for some reason refused to do any AoE in a level 66 dungeon and the sprout blm was dealing more damage to the bosses despite failing her rotations. I appreciate that at least she is trying. The reason for the dragoon's poor performance I quote "I have a terrible headache^^". Why are you playing if you have a headache which is basically preventing you from playing and ruins the experience for other players? What purpose does the "^^" at the end serve? To indicate that you are trolling your party and happy because you think I can't do anything about it? Like seriously. His behaviour is disruptive and this is against ToS and hopefully, the GM who is going to be investigating the case will deem it as such as well.

Is it allowed to say things like "at the last pull I(gnb) used only Keen Edge and Brutal Shield and still did more DPS than the dragoon" in the report? Can we use the data from the ACT to validate a report and prove our points?

Since its a dungeon this is not much of a problem and unfortunately all you can do is ask if it can use his aoe skills on mobs(not being unecessary rude of course).
Remeber to not be afraid to give advice to player. Most players are afraid to tell something and get reported for trying to tell how ppl should play. Advice is not a demand, even when not asked in the worst scenario he'll just ignore ou talk shit.
If comes to this point just ignore.

tl dr, no you can't .

[MPK]

I wish. I would've reported so many no dps healers if that was allowed.

[ZedxKayn]

Would be nice. But what is griefing in any other game is acceptable in FFXIV for some reason.

Also obviously because ACT is technically forbidden.

[TroySoFab]

I say give it a try. All those people saying no probably don't meld materia to their level 80 gear.

[Ransu]

I wish. I would've reported so many no dps healers if that was allowed.

And every GM would likely laugh at your pettiness.

[Liam_Harper]

I play for the story, not to live up to other player's expectations. This is an MMO, we can all play however the heck we want.

Say's who?

What if you decided not to wear a job stone at level 80? Or to use a lv1 weapon. Or to RP walk for immersion? Or play tank without stance because you want to be a dps Paladin. Or only use Vercure and Raise on RDM because you prefer to be support, or never touch a heal as healer because you want to be a Holy Mage and so on...

You'd be kicked immediately. But why? In all those examples you're just "playing however the heck you want"? None of those are strictly prohibited in the ToS, but you'd still be considered a griefer.

It's because it's an MMO. A social multiplayer game. A team activity. You aren't the only person involved or the center of the universe and your fun isn't weighted higher than 3-7 other players fun combined. So it's perfectly reasonable to expect a player to be trying to perform the basics of their class. Not perfection, just the basics. Aoe, your core abilities when you can, your heals and/or emnity and a minimum of gear. It's really not too much to ask.

And every GM would likely laugh at your pettiness.

Why is it like that though? You'd likely be booted or flamed immediately if you for example, went into lv80 content as a Conjurer even if you played well, yet a 0 dps healer contributes far less and half the community is absolutely fine with them.

[Ransu]

Why is it like that though? You'd likely be booted or flamed immediately if you for example, went into lv80 content as a Conjurer even if you played well, yet a 0 dps healer contributes far less and half the community is absolutely fine with them.

But we're not talking about capped level content. If you join a PF to do a capped level content and are not doing what you need to do then that's on you and the party leader retains the right to kick you. In a leveling roulette though? Who cares....So you have to spend maybe an extra 5 minutes in the dungeon because the healer isn't dpsing, big whoop. Hardly worth the time to bother a GM with a report when they likely have more important issues to deal with.

[MicahZerrshia]

I had a sam in expert today who was single targeting mobs on pack pulls, so I just left. At this point I won't even ask why someone isn't aoeing due to ppl being so quick to call a GM, I will just take the hit since se has basically a zero tolerance policy on hurt feelings.