Quote Originally Posted by ThreeBeastSmile View Post
I've made a couple of responses to similar posts such as these over the last week or so. Once again I'm moved to posit that your agency as a single player is not to be underestimated. Another hallmark seems to be the admission, albeit humble in some respects, that they're "not very good". Yet often times this coincides with an effort level ceiling that prevents them from ever trying to prove that wrong, cuz "I'm just doing it for xp/series/whatever". To say it's "impossible to counter" is claiming striking dummy status. That's simply not the case and you're doing yourself a massive disservice as a person. It might be that you just don't like the content enough, in which case the decision on what to do is obvious, at least imo.

Otherwise? Maybe review just what jobs kits are like (right down to their cd timers), what universal kits offer beyond the instantaneous benefit (e.g. pre-purifying). Maybe consider not playing BRD if you're not particularly attached to it. You could go SAM for that constant scare factor, or MNK to jump their DRK once they motion to commit (or force their healer away). A lot of the time it's a lack of melee presence that makes things unnecessarily awkward. You could also go WHM for their stupidly long range stunning LB or kappa/pig anyone significant that's close enough. Things like that you know? You can do this as a lone unit and have an impact if you just pick a really good time to do it and they aren't expecting a reaction. Complacency is often a glaring weakness of theirs.

Personally I'm not queuing as much these days because I'm quite sick of being plonked into the team where it feels like I'm the only one that wants to be there for combat, once too many times in a row. Secondly, attitudes encountered in general.
Agree with all of this (especially the comment about being dropped into a team surrounded by people who don't want to engage in actual pvp, part of why I'm losing interest too, along with RDM changes, Secure etc etc etc).
See a DRK about to dive in? WHM LB and stun them. No LB up? Kappa them as they land or kappa the RPR/DNC/AST. But that requires effort and looking at who is coming towards you and making some decisions around who you should target and what ability you yourself have, that you should use. Or, you know, not standing there like stuffed ducks, while an enemy team runs straight at you.
Too many players look at premades and throw their hands up and go "it's impossible". BS