Your situation is that while you were either dead in the gutter, lost, or just stuck in a cut scene. You would have been relegated to being the Off Tank, and not the Main Tank by the group.

They aren't going to be concerned if it's your first time or your 100th. They also aren't in control of the excessive clips and when they trigger. If you're just a straggler, somewhere back there /gestures over shoulder then they're gonna keep moving forward.

Because they want to make that extremely rewarding but soul destroying daily repetition of 45 minutes over and done with.

I can imagine that roulette would be bewildering the first couple times, from the unnecessary length of it to the excessive talking, or figuring out where the catch up portals are... Thank God these days the game ports you to the current fight once it's started.

You do realise at any point during this roulette of course you can press enter, type in chat and give a heads up to the others that you're *still* there but lost but on your way? No one would boot you for that.

You would have been booted because they can't see your screen, and it's common enough that people load in, afk and get the xp hoping they don't get a kick.

While I am sorry this is your outcome, perhaps it is best you do park mmo's if this is enough to trigger a forum post like this.