Marking bad players needs to stop

[Montgraves]

I don't want to be bad. I'm trying my best. I practice my rotation. I look up guides. I only do normal content. But sometimes I'm just...bad.

I've been playing since HW and this has only happened to me twice, but it's so incredibly rude and humiliating to literally put a sign on someone during a dungeon or an alliance raid of all things.

We all have off days, that's fine. "Oops" in chat and move on.

But if this has only happened to you twice in 8 years, it's really not a problem and nothing to complain about.

I get it; it's humiliating to you, but I can guarantee you no one else in the raid (outside of the person who did it) even remembers or even really cared. I've seen this happen a few times, usually to people who were straight up trolling in Alliance; deliberately running into AoEs and whatnot, and you know what I thought when I saw it?

"Heh, they got marked."

And then proceeded to not give it a second thought because I'm focused more on playing the game than watching some marker run around the map.

At the end of the day, the only person being tortured about this is you, and only you have the power to stop it. Forgive and forget; not because the person deserves forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

[Kreyd]

I have never seen anyone getting a marker put on his head for beeing bad so people can watch over them. Usually players that know what to do get markers put on them so everyone can follow them for difficult mechanics.

[Tahbitha]

Honestly, this is why I use Duty Support and Trusts as much as possible. Especially when I'm leveling my tank and healer jobs.

I already know I'm bad. I don't need anyone to point it out to me.

[Szylver]

I have never seen anyone getting a marker put on his head for beeing bad so people can watch over them. Usually players that know what to do get markers put on them so everyone can follow them for difficult mechanics.

If you play frontline you see it a lot xD

[SilverObi]

I usually only see markers besides the Danger Dorito put on players who are trying to afk through 24-mans, to alert the party to their behavior. And usually it gets them to start participating lol

[Avatre]

I usually only see markers besides the Danger Dorito put on players who are trying to afk through 24-mans, to alert the party to their behavior. And usually it gets them to start participating lol

I personally focus target those people, and then speak up about it after a fight if they either didn't do anything, or were playing EXTRA lethargic(one GCD every 10sec type of thing). Or just start a vote without saying anything with the reason being AFK. If it fails, people tend to watch that person closer and a second vote usually follows.

[KayliRose]

I don't think I've ever seen this kind of behavior before. Usually the server I'm in, marking someone just means follow them for mechanics or to mark the healer or tank of the group. Never seen anyone get marked for being bad or even afk/slow before lol.
Just kinda makes me think you might be in a server that's too hardcore in the raiding community.

[Troxbark]

I don't want to be bad. I'm trying my best. I practice my rotation. I look up guides. I only do normal content. But sometimes I'm just...bad.

I've been playing since HW and this has only happened to me twice, but it's so incredibly rude and humiliating to literally put a sign on someone during a dungeon or an alliance raid of all things. If you're good enough to notice that someone is bad, you're good enough to keep an eye on them without a visual aid. You will never convince me otherwise.

It makes me want to quit the game entirely. So what to do?

"Just blacklist them"

Unfortunately SE can't seem to understand that allowing blacklisted players to join you in PF is a bad thing.

"Git gud scrub"

...go away.

"Just go with your FC mates"

I'm really only in an FC for the buffs. I have social anxiety so I rarely talk to anyone. Even if I could manage that, do you really think players who are better than me will want to keep playing with a bad player who rarely talks?

I know nothing will come of this post. I guess I just wanted to vent.

Mark bad players because healers get board and it's fun watching the raid follow a dorito into chaos.

Mark bad players because its easier for healers to keep track of you and give you more healy love.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Over the several years as a healer, I may have marked a few people, mostly in alliance raids, who make no attempts to avoid AoEs or to stay alive and are just a waste of MP to keep raising.

[Denji]

Over the several years as a healer, I may have marked a few people, mostly in alliance raids, who make no attempts to avoid AoEs or to stay alive and are just a waste of MP to keep raising.

if you're not going to avoid the most basic of basic aoes and just constantly die to every single mechanic then you get the no symbol to indicate to others that you shouldn't be raised.
i've only done this to people who go AFK tho. the tomestone event was the absolute worst for this. they'd just spam a single attack and stand there until the next boss was activated to warp them in.