Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
The reason we started using Party Finder goes back to Heavensward. Back then, we had no cross-world Party Finder, so we DID use Raid Finder. An average tank in there did not know what a tank swap was. I'd queue into Sophia Extreme and wait for the tank to swap off me and they... didn't. Not a single tank hardly ever did this. It was hopeless. It was one of the first mechanics and none of the tanks were any good at the most basic function of their job, tank busters.

The absolute most casual, most new tanks, that had probably just started tanking moments before they queued, would enter it as if it was casual content, and had no idea what they were doing. And didn't learn as the pulls went on. Let alone know what mitigation was.

So once we got cross-world Party Finder, people began to migrate to it, for obvious reasons. The casual players that have no clue what they are doing would not be brave enough to join a party they can be kicked from and troll it by having not done the most basic research or preparation on how to play their job ie. enough to press "Provoke" so the party can progress.

They did still use Raid Finder for Zurvan but there is a meme some players will have heard from back then of "skip soar" which seemed to finally push everyone else to PF.
Honestly raid finder for Sophia ex was fine I got most of my totems there. Zurvan ex killed raid finder because literally every group was 1 tank 5 dps and the raid finder couldn't accommodate that.

As a tool it would have been so much better if the filters just worked properly from the offset. Zurvan basically killed raid finder. But it was done for much earlier than that simply because the filters didn't work. Someone who'd never set foot in the content could queue duty completion phase 3. Instead of practice phase 1. That was a fairly crushing blow to the raid finders future.

It should have had milestones and checkpoints. You should never have been able to queue duty completion if you'd never got the boss down to 10% and seen enrage. You should never be able to queue practice phase 3 until you successfully made it to that point without ko...

Just being able to roll straight in duty completion phase 3. And expect to be carried isnwhat killed thebraid finder and also what causes a massive number of pf problems