Quote Originally Posted by Zebraoracle View Post
Gosh, Aether is so awful about picking some big name's strategy and adopting it and never budging past that strategy even when it's bad. It's so mindboggling. It's part of why I refuse to raid if I don't have a static.

On the flip side, Aether's usually pretty decent about waiting for cutscenes. Usually. Just had an Orbonne Monastery run where three or four people were in cutscenes and the whole alliance waited. I was so proud.

But that's the only time in a non-extreme/savage/TEA content I expect any sort of waiting before pulling, tbh. And as soon as everyone was inside the room, we pulled, no countdown.
Yeah we also tend to be the DC that chooses to set absurd ilvs and disallow jobs just because someone they know somewhere said X job sucked this tier even if it's a week before the unlock on loot. Like if you are still having trouble with a fight that late into a tier it's probably not the strat or job exclusion or the ilv problem...

And yeah we do tend to wait for Cutscene watchers at least when enough of the patient part of the community isn't on break. Otherwise it's a 50/50 on if you get a run with the ants in pants gotta go fast types or the pulls after a ready. The only other place we seem to have manners is during hunt trains.