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.