How dare anyone do such a thing and ruin your speed run that you decided to DF!?


Speed runs are things you should be doing with your FC, not random DF parties. If your FC cannot do them for you than your FC is bad...or they think you are bad and you should feel bad.

What triggers this post? I just dinged 50 last night. Just finished my Paladin 50 quest and decided to finish the story. I DF, solo and get into a group where a couple of the players have decided that this is going to be a speed run. They start making statements like "tanks need to know this dungeon inside and out." I politely point out that I am doing this for the first time for story clear. Well that started the negative comments from them.

They just started running off. So I followed. Then they stood there waiting for me to do something, so I pull the closest mobs. Then they yell at me for pulling mobs we didn't have to fight. Okay. Thanks for telling me that after the fact.

Next they want me to go aggro some mobs and run them to the cannons. Okay. I did that and apparently ran them too close. I was suppose to know that a mob I have never fought before used a giant cleaving ability.

They tell me to tank in the left corner. They don't tell me if that is left from the way they are facing or the way I am facing and then get all pissy when I ask for clarification.

They tell me to grab the adds that pop on the right side and run them to the middle. So I flash the adds and start running, only for them to start killing them right where they stand and complain about me losing aggro.

Then they tell me to tank the final boss in the middle. I shield lob pull it, provoke and flash and am about to do my Savage to Rage combo to start building hate and they tier 3 limit break it and complain that I lost hate at the beginning of the fight.

I hate this community. It is absolutely deplorable. I use to think the people saying that FFXI community was so much better than this were just people stuck in their ways. Now I am starting to agree with them.

/rant

To any new players who get into a DF instance with me...I will never do this to you.