Warning for "Grief" Tactics?!

[kaynide]

If they are going to give me a warning over this, then they need to start handing out warnings to players ruining my experience, by wasting everyone's time. Not using aoes, no cds, undergeared, dying constantly.. Or is that just ignored, because FFXIV has such a large population of these sort of players in their community? Why is a player contributing nothing to the rest of the party afforded protections?

I would say you can and should report players who you feel are being willfully negligent.

That said, if a character can get into some instance at the required iLvl, despite being incredibly weak, they are not “under geared” for the content. I would agree SE can and should do better on tightening gear sync and how they calculate a job… but as is, these players are doing what is allowed in the game. Even if they are naked aside from their weapon.

Regarding the other stuff, it’s really simple: as long as the DPS is DPSing, the Tank Tanking and the Healer Healing, everyone is doing their job according to SE…even if it agonizingly slow.

You are allowed to leave if their play style doesn’t match, but if you refuse to do the role you signed up for, there can be a reportable problem. I believe that your healing situation could be the problem here, not the fact that you leave parties.