Disruptive Frontline Gameplay

[Mawlzy]

Do we play the same game? The number of times I have to tell DNCs to use dancer partner, useless BRDs and SMNs who never use paean or egi shield on anything but themselves (if even that), the multitude of PLDs who never use guardian, the DRKs who use salted earth to pull 1 enemy tank, the DRGs who use their LB to try to kill a single target etc etc... And how about the assist/damage/healing scores at the end of the games being a clear indicator of how poorly the vast majority plays? I can forgive the first timers but most players have already done FL more than once and still barely perform at an average level...
ANd the difference between a pvp and pve roulette is that there's nothing competitive about a pve roulette... I do expect ALL people to actually try when I play pvp.

I too would like everyone to try when I play PvP. My main point is that, in the face of highly-oppressive premades, there is a subset of players who have decided there is no point in trying, since whatever they do has no impact on the result. I think we have to address the cause, not the symptoms, whether that cause be poor balance, or the stupidity of mixing solo queueing with party queueing.

As to the differences between JP/NA, sure I've heard enough anecdotal evidence to suggest the quality of play is higher on JP servers and includes interesting tactics such as clustering/hiding. I just am skeptical this reflects some cultural societal difference outside of FF14. For example, on NA servers the bone dragon (?) gets pulled further north than on JP servers. One could attribute that to the influence of feng shui, I suppose, but I suspect it's just just how common behavior converges within a community.