Rescue needs to go away.

[Krotoan]

I'm not telling you anything. I'm only pointing out what you're saying yourself. If you actually take a step back and listen to yourself, what I'm trying to tell might start sinking in. Regardless of what you might think, and your own experiences, Rescue was not put into the game to ruin your day.

I never said it was, you however ARE telling me how to present what I want to say and how I want to say it by calling my experiences invalid.

Also, I never said that what you claim never happens because I never experienced it. I said I don't find your claim to be true, because I've never experienced it.

are you reading what you just wrote? So you'd rather put it as "you are lying"?

And how can I? If I never experienced a healer using Rescue maliciously, then how on Earth could I possibly conclude that it's true? At best, I can believe you. And I don't. I think a healer probably had best intentions, you died anyway, and now you think Rescue is a horrible skill and needs to be deleted.

and again.. putting a position forward for me I did not state. I wouldn't miss it if it was gone. I have experienced it being misused or poorly used more than I've experienced it helping. If it was up to me... but it's not.

What I KNOW actually happens with Rescue is healers using it unsuccessfully i.e. the players still takes damage or dies. In these cases, the healer is just trying to help, because you're in the wrong spot, or greeding and they are unaware you are.

maybe.. read what I'm typing then instead of trying to invalidate it or dismiss it. I have experienced people using it to specifically get me killed. I have experienced people using it to change how I tank, or position myself as DPS. Generally if someone does this ACCIDENTALLY you get an "oops" or a "my bad"... never was forthcoming. Overall I don't bother scolding or complaining or reporting these offenses because as I said they ARE rare. But that's not that they don't happen.

I assume non malicious intent from random strangers first until it becomes obvious they did not mean well. Thought this was normal?

Someone "rescue"ing me into the titan knockback or into the Fear on Leviathan from a completely safe position is relatively obvious. Someone pulling mobs as a healer and then rescuing me to them is most definitely them trying to make me go at their pace. I don't make quick assumptions, but I do call a spade a spade when I see it. Will people admit doing such? Unlikely, since admission through chat is actionable by a GM. However in context it's obvious what the goal is. If someone botches a rescue because of ping it's usually pretty obvious they thought I wasn't safe or they simply misjudged where I'd be put, it's hard to accidentally do the things that take out a reasonably aware and competent party member, AND the couple times people have accidentally done things that killed me? They apologized quickly and emphatically.

It sounds like incredibly unhealthy way to view an action occurring in a fricken video game. Many apologies if that ruffled the jimmies? Reality does stink some of the times.

only if you attribute the discussion to "malding" rather than people giving their experiences and observations. It's almost like you're attributing motivation and emotion where there isn't any... .. huh.. seems like someone was accusing others of that.

Yes, I do think of the poor healer that might lose yet another unique utility skill because trogs cannot stop malding over complete nonsense issues. I do not sit there postulating about every botched Rescue attempt then proceed to attribute it to malice from team members. I think someone going on big angry tirades about their pixel character being yeeted miiiiight have anger issues of the short guy variety.

"short guy"... says the investigatory lalafel.

Jokes aside I suggest, yet again, look at what you are blamethrowing at others and then doing yourself.

TL;DR - Sure sure I get that it annoys you and many others.. had no clue if there is honesty. However if the choice is lose a skill most useful or get over it I am going to have to pick get over it.

The chances of Rescue getting removed actually increase the more people engage with this thread... so maybe let it die then? All in all it's a minor complaint that pops up whenever someone gets a particularly annoying rescue applied to them. I will always chime in that the majority of its uses I see are to annoy and control and not to help others. KNOWING that I do not notice when it happens to others, but as someone who looks back at deaths and tries to figure out how to not die again, it's a good idea to also notice when someone saves your bacon with rescue... but it's also very noticeable when the only thing you could have done to not die is not have someone in your party.

Pick your battles and follow your own advice.