Why people are bad at the game, and why they never learn to play it.

[AllenThyl]

All discussion so far has been explicitly framed with regards to people not even doing the bare minimum like using AoE in a dungeon as dps.

No it hasn't, it's been wildly all over the place, such as being big mad that tank isn't pulling fast enough, to throwing around terms like "lazy", "holding people prisoner", even referring to uptime while parousing the logs that are against TOS precisely because of this reason, etc. None of that is in the spirit of the video, or at identifying and addressing play that you determine to be unacceptable, as though people are performing puppets at your beck and call.

My man, you write a lot, and it's all very dramatic, but you say very little.
Tell us then, in clear and easy terms, what do YOU think is the very baseline competence at this game that should be brought into, let's say, an expert dungeon (i.e. current max level content)? Nothing? At least a little bit? Should a tank have tank stance on, or is it ok if they don't? Should a healer heal at least a little bit? Or is it also ok if they don't? Should a healer do dps if there is nothing to heal, or is it ok if they basically stand around the whole fight healing nothing, thanks to tanks pumping out enough healing to keep the party alive, so there isn't even any need for a healer in the first place? How about people who are just afk and on follow? Is that also ok? Or should everyone at least contribute a little bit? Should DPS at least attempt to d do their rotation, or is it okay if they just use whatever has the coolest animation? I mention the last one, because I once had a dragoon in EW expert roulette who would spam their Heaven's Trust skill, which is the 3rd part of the combo, meaning they constantly only did 100 potency. But it looks cool, I guess. So come on man, put some fishes on the table (or whatever the expression in your locality is), and actually contribute to this discussion as well.