Quote Originally Posted by Nishira View Post
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I’ll be honest. At first i scoffed at your question. But following your post history, I’ll take you seriously.
There may be a point where every player is mediocre. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. There comes a point where many people are learning, whether it be a new duty, new mechanics or a new class. There may even be a certain level of comfort, or rather, lack there of. Especially when in learning phases. My personal problem, is those who do not try to get better. The far below average, going to barely attempt, because….. someone else will get me through it.
The people who put in little to no effort are leeches. The ones who can try but don’t want to. This game, aside from raiding, (24 man content is not raiding), is design in such a way that the content can be cleared with 50% of the party being dead weight. While its possible, its not fair to the people who are putting in the effort dragging those people across the finish line. In fact, out right disrespectful.
I’ll give an example. A tank, I forget which class exactly, in paradigm had decided its “more fun”, literally his words, to stand in aoes. To not use cool downs. To not even make an attempt. When i asked them why they would go out of their way to make it harder on their healers, i got cussed out because I don’t pay their sub. That i was an elitist. Simply for asking why no effort. 1 experience of many
There comes a point where a person should be able to carry their weight. To contribute the same as they expect from the other party members. Not be dragged to their success off someone else’s effort. Off everybody’s effort but their own. And lately, I’ve seen a lot of that. 80 melees doing no more than their 1,2,3 single target rotation. Paired with whm co healers who only medica 2. Its ok for them to play that way means its ok for them to use others.
The bar i set in expectation for others isn’t very high. I don’t parse (console) so I can’t get too into peoples numbers. But when a person is without question, not trying, there is an issue.