Quote Originally Posted by GaiusDrakon View Post
Why is the playerbase so mentally fragile now
You would know - considering how many posts you do in here crying about not enough different skin colors/diversity, how the game isn't for you, how you're annoyed at anyone and everyone. Seriously, you're the posterboy for this.

As to your actual question, "Why is this more and more common now?" - confirmation bias: It's not. You believe it is, so you notice every instance that supports your hypothesis and ignore all the cases that do not; and BEFORE you had this hypothesis, when this same sort of thing was happening, you weren't mentally logging it. So it seems there are more cases because you're mentally keyed to notice them now, when it's always been this way, you just didn't notice in the past. Moreover, people used not to be dicks about it. I had parties in HW, SB, etc where I taught people some Job mechanics and often got comms for it. It's not hard, you just have to use your words like an adult, not be a dick, and if possible, do it in non-public chats or without mentioning anyone, so it doesn't seem like you're calling anyone out.

For example "If you can keep your Damage over Time (DoT) spells up on bosses, it will up your damage on them. Stuff like Dia, Biolysis, Combust, Eukrasia Dosis, Chaos Thrust, Demolish, BLM Thunder 1/3, and so on" (used to be even easier when SMN had DoTs, since it had so many at one point, or when Healers had multiple). This way, you're talking in generalities so no one feels called out - and in turn, a need to either defend themselves or hide in shame.

This is just basic "How to appeal to people" 101, which sadly, most people don't have since most people now-a-days have the tact of a gorilla wrestling a rino. Don't attack people, be general so you don't seem to be calling out anyone in specific, if possible talk to a person in private instead of public, etc. A short, curt "do this" is kind of dickish and isn't even actionable. "Recitation + Indom"? That's not even great advice since Recitation has a longish CD and it seems like your party's DPS or the Tank's mitigation plan were too low/crap. Most content these days is easy enough Eos could heal it unless your Tank isn't using mitigation and/or your party is garbage tier DPS and your Tank is pulling too big for what they can bring down safely.

If you're dying due to "the healer", it's more likely the entire rest of the party is failing.