Rescue is Griefing

[Packetdancer]

What the fuck are you doing to be rescue griefed so much? How is it that you're getting rescue griefed like 85% more than the entire XIV population lol? Maybe at some point it's just you

I suspect that even if people believe they are Rescue-trolled four out of every five duties they queue into, the reality is probably nowhere close to that. Even when I'm not playing the healer, I don't see Rescue used at all that frequently, much less to troll.

However. It is worth noting that human beings are notoriously bad at actually judging percentage/frequency of things at the best of times, and even worse if the scenario is in any way an emotionally charged one. They've done studies on this.

If you run 15 duties in the space of 3 days, and have Rescue used on you in even two of them, two months later, likely all you'll remember is "I got Rescue used on me more than once in a really short time." and over time it inflates in your mind to be way more frequent. So while I'm sure some folks are exaggerating the frequency for dramatic effect, I also have no doubt others genuinely believe it to be as frequent as they suggest it is.

However, I suspect that anyone who genuinely believes it happens to them in, like, 4 out of every 5 things they run... if they kept a spreadsheet for a week, just one line each time they have "Duty Commenced", and when finished they put a checkmark next to it if they had Rescue used on them? I suspect they'd be genuinely surprised at the percentage being far lower than they thought.

And sure, in some cases I can write it off as "maybe things are different in that data center", but VerdeLuck (for instance) is in Primal with me, and I genuinely have to think back really hard to when I last had Rescue used on me. And while, yes, I am a healer main -- which means generally I am the determining factor on whether or not Rescue can be used, or 50% of the determining factor in larger group content -- I finished leveling all my healers ages ago, and so I've been running mostly non-healer jobs for the past 2-ish months outside of actual stuff-with-the-static as I leveled everything else to 90. And I can't think of any instance of Rescue being used on me in that time, save for once when someone fat-fingered the button and apologized profusely in party chat immediately afterwards.

If we start to remove features like rescue because of griefing, we better start with chat.

I mean...

[1. WAR] { Hello! }
[1. WAR] { Push the crystal! }
[2. SGE] { Push the crystal! }

[ ...match ends with loss, half the team having been in Narnia for the entire time... ]

[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Nice job! }
[4. DRG] { Thank you! }
* DRG has left the instance.

[HyoMinPark]

True, in truth if someone asked me to stop pulling because a healer was using rescue to kill people I most likely would let it go unless for some reason it lead to a wipe. Generally even with someone AFK most the time I just go vroom vrooom and just speed blitz everything I rarely wait out the timer for a kick tbh. Not worth the time imo rather just carry the dead weight and be on my Mary way.

I’m petty enough to do /sit and wait out loot timers to kick people that are leeching. Or help organize an entire alliance-wide wipe like I did last night in Orbonne for a BLM that decided he deserved his Moogle Tomes for free. I can’t stand leechers and deadweights.

How is it that you're getting rescue griefed like 85% more than the entire XIV population lol? Maybe at some point it's just you

Well, you know what they say: if everyone around you smells like poo, perhaps you should check the bottom of your own shoe.

That said, I think they just have a negative bias and are blowing the actual amount of times they’ve been Rescued with an intention to grief way out of proportion. There are people in this thread have have insisted every use of Rescue is griefing “even if the healer was trying to help”, so that may also be the case here, too.

In the four+ years Rescue has been active, I can count on one hand how many times I was rescued by a random healer. I was rescued more by my static’s co-healer during prog to break the healer LB3 animation.

[Bobby66]

I’m petty enough to do /sit and wait out loot timers to kick people that are leeching. Or help organize an entire alliance-wide wipe like I did last night in Orbonne for a BLM that decided he deserved his Moogle Tomes for free. I can’t stand leechers and deadweights.



Well, you know what they say: if everyone around you smells like poo, perhaps you should check the bottom of your own shoe.

That said, I think they just have a negative bias and are blowing the actual amount of times they’ve been Rescued with an intention to grief way out of proportion. There are people in this thread have have insisted every use of Rescue is griefing “even if the healer was trying to help”, so that may also be the case here, too.

In the four+ years Rescue has been active, I can count on one hand how many times I was rescued by a random healer. I was rescued more by my static’s co-healer during prog to break the healer LB3 animation.

More power to ya, I can be petty bur generally I rather do the content and be free from that inner circle of hell.

I get where you are coming from though.

On the topic of the other person even if they get pulled 10 out of 10 runs every 2 min it is still such a small amount in the grand scheme it is kinda zzz to even use their experience as a staple.

[Sebazy]

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I'd suggest cutting down on the cheese sir, you realise it gives you nightmares right? =(

[Momo_Kozuki]

I rescue tank who run away from player-made puddle.


I rescue stack-marker who is far away from the group, unless it is a stack-marker for tank.


I rescue hapless DPS who think a tank-buster is not AoE and decide to stack on tank.



If anything, I wish to have the ability to push people away, so that I can push one stack-marker during double stack-markers away from the group before they kill everyone.

[Midareyukki]

I rescue tank who run away from player-made puddle.

I've rescued tanks into Sacred Soil during a mob pull in the Dead Ends.

Tank got really mad and said I was ruining his DPS.

Honestly, Rescue for me is this:


...also, is it okay to post Zangief? Is he against the ToS? :| Legit asking here, because uh... attire and all that.

[Haventale]

I’ve been playing this game for 4 years, and not once have I ever seen anyone use rescue to grief. Every single time I’ve been rescued was because the healer was genuinely trying to save me from a mechanic I messed up the timing of. I don’t know what hell world you’re on where this is rampant, but I have never seen this happen.

[Asako]

As a Tank I hate getting randomly rescued by healers, I wish there was an option to opt out of it. However the cases that it saves lives outweighs the cases that it causes deaths so I guess it's fine as it is.

[elizeugba]

If we start to remove features like rescue because of griefing, we better start with chat.

Just because some bad apples use it to troll ppl, it doesn't need to be removed. In my experience, 99% of the times I have seen rescues, it was to save ppl's asses. Also, sometimes the ping makes a rescue that would save someone's life, kill them.

[MsQi]

Rescue doesn't grief people
People grief people