New Player Etiquette

[BlisteringFrost]

Blocking yourself to the most profitable roulette because devs decided to do something stupid isn't really the answer here. Nonetheless, dungeons are designed to be speedrunned. SE gave up a while ago about making dungeon actually different and "kinda" interesting. 95% dungeons after ARR are pretty much two groups of mobs > wall > two groups of mobs > wall > boss x3. Even the bosses mechanics go from laughable to non-existant (Hello Endwalker). You cannot really blame players for wanting to get it done fast when even the devs gave up on dungeons and design them to be speedrunned.

It's not blocking myself. That assumes I'm never going to touch it again. I just don't wanna touch it today (for example). So I won't do it.

If I don't wanna play FFXIV I won't login. This shouldn't be a foreign concept lol. Calling the content "most profitable" and insisting you get it done as fast as possible means you've gas lit yourself into treating the game as a job. Most likely without even realizing it. Why work a job you're not getting paid for? That's just silly.

[VeyaAkemi]

About "speedrunning everything", I actually find doing things in an efficient and expedient manner is fun in itself, I actually love the 2nd boss from Meso specifically because of this, you are, intentionally or not, racing the other players, and I feel good about myself when I kill my Warden first.

Honestly "if the game isn't built for speed, you shouldn't try to speed it" is sincerely a very pathetic take, and incredibly limiting to what games can be as an experience.

[Absurdity]

Honestly "if the game isn't built for speed, you shouldn't try to speed it" is sincerely a very pathetic take, and incredibly limiting to what games can be as an experience.

I'd also argue it is built for speed, just in a very restricted way because the devs are incredibly heavy handed with how they want you to do things.
The ultimate factor to beat in even the highest content is the enrage timer, be too slow in killing the boss and no matter how well you do mechanics you will still die.

Now why do we actually do wall-to-wall pulls? Yeah sure, it's because it makes the dungeon go faster. But why?
A quick look at our AoE skills shows that at a certain amount of enemies (this can vary from job to job and ability to ability) they significantly outscale the potency of our single-target skills.
And since you can only execute 1 Weaponskill/Spell per 2.5 seconds (baseline) and 1 oGCD per 0.6 seconds you obviously want to pick the strongest skill at every opportunity. If my only options are "do less damage" or "do more damage" why would I purposely choose the worse option?

Dungeons in this game are so basic that navigation isn't a factor, survival might as well not be one, neither is synergy between enemies, the only remaining factor is the time limit.
Now because this is content that is supposed to be beaten by everyone the timer is extremely generous, but the principle is pretty much the same, you want to do as much damage as possible every 2.5 seconds to ensure you beat it, since enemies need to die for you to progress.
Which logically leads to pulling as much as you can to make your AoE skills deal their maximum potency and ultimately make things die faster than they ever could by just doing single-target attacks.

If we reduced the dungeon timer from 90 minutes down to 15 minutes it would immediately go from "speedrunning" to "that's just what you do to beat the dungeon", and that's pretty much how all battle content functions the further you move up.