I've been noticing a trend in Alliance raids of late. If anyone is new and wants to experience the story, they're going to be in for a poor experience as everytime players will pull the final boss without waiting for them to finish cutscene. There's not even a pause to see if anyone is in cutscene, even if it's a healer, players will IMMEDIATELY pull last boss while we may have several people still in cutscene.

Curiously, in all other group content, players will always wait for the person watching a cutscene, without complaint. But alliance raids, I don't know why exactly, but the attitude is completely the opposite. The other night I was doing Puppets Bunker. At the end both healers in my party were new and watching the cutscene (which, for those of us who've done it, know it's a fairly lengthy cutscene). Nobody waited, and by the time they finally joined the fight the boss was already in second phase.

Someone got upset and said we should've waited. Another player just responded "You can press escape to skip cutscenes", as if to suggest nobody would actually want to watch the cutscenes. This led to an argument, but ultimately it was already too late. Now I would argue perhaps this only highlights a flaw of trying to mix story with online group content. I would counter that by arguing you shouldn't play a game you know is story-focused and where there will be people watching cutscenes in group content if you have a problem with it.

Not really sure what could be done about this. When you're queing using the duty finder, you should know that there are people going to be experiencing the story for the first time and be willing to respect that. Why players are able to do this in all other content but not Alliance Raids I don't really understand, but I suspect it's for the same reason people grief so often in Alliance Raids and only Alliance raids (like people who deliberately melt all the ice as a frog on the Amon fight so we wipe). I have no problem waiting for people to finish cutscenes if they're new and from my experience up and till recently has been other players generally don't either, and I was lucky to have groups that waited for me when I did Alliance stories the first time, but lately it seems the average Alliance Raid queuer has completely lost their patience for story-watchers and it's just sad for people who are new and are having to deal with these people.