Rescue is Griefing

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Rescue saves lives, in many ways. Even if it does not save a laugh you are bound to at the very least get a laugh.

For real. I always get a kick out of being rescued. Either I'm distracted and am about to get slapped with something, or I get a free ride across the room. It's good for a laugh. I'm not going for world first ultimate here - a few seconds of lost uptime is not enough to break my fragile ego.

I think some people get really upset about any perceived loss of control.

Here's a person who's never rescued a melee DPS back to the boss for better uptime after they had to run away to drop an AOE marker.

Ultima in the last Ivalice raid, at the end of the maze: I always end up getting the proximity arrow marker that you have to drop in the void. The other day, a healer rescued me back to the boss once the explosion went off. My little heart soared.

I was so excited, and thanked the healer for being amazing. That healer STILL apologized to me pre-emptively, probably because they had so many fragile egos gripe at them for DARING to scoot them out of place.

Rescue needs to go.
So many times people rescue when I'm perfectly fine.

This is such a small inconvenience to you, at the loss of a really valuable skill. A lot of people who are rescued (and gripe about it) might THINK they're fine, while being totally unaware of an incoming mechanic.

I've seen rescue used for griefing maybe once. And it was probably an accident.

Like the time I rescued my partner into the chasm going to the frog boss in the Shadowbringers fae dungeon. I thought it would zip him to the other side. Whoops.

[Nav_Fae]

This is such a small inconvenience to you, at the loss of a really valuable skill. A lot of people who are rescued (and gripe about it) might THINK they're fine, while being totally unaware of an incoming mechanic.

I've seen rescue used for griefing maybe once. And it was probably an accident.

Like the time I rescued my partner into the chasm going to the frog boss in the Shadowbringers fae dungeon. I thought it would zip him to the other side. Whoops.

Then let me learn the hard way.
Maybe I'm just greeding because I know I'll survive and it's just a small inconvenience for the healer that they have to heal me. I can't tell you how many times I've been rescued because the healer thought they were helping me when all they did was make things worse. Being rescued while melee comboing as a rdm when I know I'll survive the attack feels kind of bad when I have a backflip. The healer doesn't know what I'm planning to do.