Held Hostage in the last Dawntrail Trial

[Jojoya]

I didn't read through all the comments thoroughly but has anyone who has had such an experience reported it to the GMs?

In this particular case, it's less about the GMs taking action against the tanks but rather the GMs providing feedback to the developers that this is getting to be a common occurrence and source of complaints.

If it starts showing up in GM tickets as a regular issue, that might lead to the developers looking more closely at tank design.

I've been lucky myself. While there have been a couple of occasions where everyone but the tank was dead, the tank has chosen to die unless the boss was close to dead and everyone was good with the tank doing the last 5% or whatever amount. But if I do end up in the "hostage" experience, I won't hesitate to report it if the party asks the tank to die and they refuse.

[Shinku_Tachi]

I just queued into the last trial of the most recent expansion for the very first time and all was going well until most of the party died from a raidwide. only one of our tanks survived and decided they would solo it while holding us hostage. we all pleaded for them to jump off the platform so we could continue together but they said no and to suck it up. they proceeded to solo the entire fight, and there was no way we could leave the fight or vote abandon. all those options just would not trigger in combat.

it is not okay for someone to be able to hold us hostage like that. with all 7 other party members dead, there should be a majority rules or a setting where if more than 6 or so players have been dead for more than 5-10 minutes, the fight resets.

Thank you so much for taking the time to bring your situation forward.

I hope more people continue to share their experiences with this situation.

It's my hope that if we continue bringing this problem front and center, the community team will eventually take notice and bring it to the devs attention!

So let's keep at it! ^_^

[Miki_L]

Had this experience before. I tried to vote abandon or kick the tank that was griefing but they would pull immediately as soon as we respawn and put us in combat, making it not possible. The system just does not work as intended. It does not make sense why these actions cannot be taken while in combat.

[Wildheaven182]

There's already two active threads on this topic.

Ordinary players who dont talk on the forums are reaching out individually because the poor balance of the game results in sitiations where literally one player gets to play while the others are forced to sit and watch for 10 minutes.

[Commander_Justitia]

if healer are not needed, why do they even exist? but blame the player I guess lmao

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

if healer are not needed, why do they even exist? but blame the player I guess lmao

Yep. Time to nerf tank heals into the ground.

[AddictedToWitches]

this is honestly why more fights need soft enrages like M4 does

[Shibi]

7.10 Patchnotes: Warriors
On using Fell cleave the character will be glamoured into the form of Poochie for 3 minutes. This effect will stack and will not fade on leaving the instance.

[shigaisen]

this is honestly why more fights need soft enrages like M4 does

Could make it like Criterion Savage. If the fight drags on, boss gets buffed to where autos are tankbuster levels.

[Retsu90]

I was held hostage by Wuk Lamat.