Difficulty of normal content.

[ArielTimeshrine]

I do not expect perfection as I'm just in there to do my job and get compensated for it (Tomestones, gil, etc.). The only thing I expect for anyone else in my party is to try to do their best in their ability. If your best looks like you messing up here and there in regular content, so long that you're not intentionally griefing/trolling, that's okay. Heck, I mess up, too. I'm not perfect.

However, it becomes a problem when you just give up and not learn the mechanics and your job kit.

Big agree. As a side tangent to this, it is unfortunate and sad how many people intentionally conflate elitism with an expectation of effort. I would like to get it done and dusted because I am showing up in a roulette for a reason and I expect that people at least try to kill the content at a reasonable speed and try to do better. It isn't necessary to be very optimal but I expect you to at least try and follow the Rule of Threes for AoEs, to not be half-AFK (or fully AFK, nowadays), to try and do damage on a healer, ect. if you aren't new. That's not called being elitist, that's called wanting to be reasonable. And yet, people shout you down for being "elitist" if you speak up about anybody, put their fingers in their ears and keep repeating "it isn't Savage" as a mantra because they simply cannot be bothered to put the slightest bit of effort in. They want to make everything other peoples' responsibility because "it's a game, let me play how I want and have fun!".

What about other peoples' fun then? Who the hell do they think they are to be more important than 3 or 7 other people?