Quote Originally Posted by DPZ2 View Post
So, does this sort of thing happen to you often, or was it a one-time thing that sticks in your memory because you were feeling bored that day and wanted to find something to vent about?

Was the person level 80? Or level 75? Were you complaining in party chat, or did you suffer in silence? Did you vote kick that person (or persons, if this is an ongoing thing you encounter)? Did the run-through take the entire 90 minutes? Was the job a caster? A tank? A healer? One of the physical DPS?

Were you looking at the battle chat in-game at the time? Or did you just use that forbidden utility to spec out what was happening after the fact? [I have enough problems keeping track of my own actions in-game, let alone those of the other 3 players in an instance -- do you have god-like powers to do both?]
If the person is playing a class you know well, it's probably pretty easy to tell if someone's not doing the entire rotation.

Like a Black Mage would be easy to tell if they were swapping between fire and ice and using Thunder. Fire and Ice cause red or blue/white orbs to rotate around the character. Thunder is a DoT and can be seen on the enemy healthbar.

A Dragoon would be easy to tell if they are using their jumps and the Dragon eye.

Classes where the positional changes from rear to flank would be easy to tell if the person is doing their positionals properly to those who have played those classes.

Expecting players to do the basics of their class isn't expecting someone to be hard core or elite.

Just because someone is not performing their bare minimum doesn't mean a player is going to feel the need to kick the player or leave themselves. May depend on how well everyone else is doing. May depend on how willing players are in that player's group are to give a carry if the player is performing badly enough.