What is up with the DF community?

[Noni]

I am also fed up with the majority of the community being so hateful to tanks and healers. As a healer myself, I admit that I don't know everything and when I go to a new instance I tell people I am a first timer, I normally need 1-2 runs to get the boss mechanics down. I was called a moron stupid and any other nasty words I can think of all because I kept being raised during hell fire and instantly died again. I have no control over any of that lol. I told the party I would leave if they wanted because honestly, I don't have time for stupid kids insulting me.

[Roric]

FFXIV Endgame: No fun or learning allowed.

[rabbitzero]

FF11 was supposed to be this awesome, amazing community, right? What happened in 14 to change that so.

I never saw that "awesome, amazing community" in ffxi. I think it's a case of those people hanging out with their own guild or whatever, and going "Well, they are great, it's those pugs that suck".


I'll counter with a run last of Preatorium (i forget how to spell that). Two of us had done it before, the rest were all new. We told everyone to go and watch the cut scenes as they happen, we wouldn't mind. Let them discover most things on their own, except for things that really suck to miss (lifts, getting a key for the mount, etc), there were a few wipes on ultima, when you have to run in, then out. No one raged, just took some people time to grock the mechanics of it. Every member seemed to be random. Finished the dungeon, wipes and all cutscenes watched with 20 mins on the clock. The only complaints were that people were ready for the dungeon to be over (i wonder how they felt after then watching cut scenes that lasted that long, heh).

There is plenty of good in the DF, i'd say it's part what you put out too. Everyone needs to relax, and just have fun. This goes for fate ragers who go off in shout if people turn things in or kill certain mobs.

[Roric]

I never saw that "awesome, amazing community" in ffxi. I think it's a case of those people hanging out with their own guild or whatever, and going "Well, they are great, it's those pugs that suck".

Seconded, somewhat. It was a great community if you could find the right people, as most players only really talked within their linkshells and barely recruited. A new player on FFXI today would never find a group to play with because everything is so tight-knit... and the only people still playing are the ones who have been there for years.

[CrystalRainbow]

I had my 1st bad healer.
I've been doing a few Duty finders with a static. War(my wife) Brd(myself) and a BLM friend from FFXI. Well Warrior had BLM don't have the best of luck together. Overpower is high hate but does dmg, and Slept mobs wake up when pulling hate again.
Well we had a WHM that after a few pulls started pulling hate but didn't die. Bitched out my wife as being a bad tank. And stopped healing and refused to leave wanted one of us to leave, because they didn't want the penalty for leaving.

[NeoZehel]

I had my 1st bad healer.
I've been doing a few Duty finders with a static. War(my wife) Brd(myself) and a BLM friend from FFXI. Well Warrior had BLM don't have the best of luck together. Overpower is high hate but does dmg, and Slept mobs wake up when pulling hate again.
Well we had a WHM that after a few pulls started pulling hate but didn't die. Bitched out my wife as being a bad tank. And stopped healing and refused to leave wanted one of us to leave, because they didn't want the penalty for leaving.

I ran into one of these as well. I was running Ifrit Hard mode FC. Problem was we needed a healer (whether we had one already I don't recall) so we used DF. After our first wipe this healer decided to bash on our Main Tank for being stupid (to tone it down quite bit). It only escalated from there, with that healer becoming more and more hostile. "tank name here go kill yourself" "I'm done, this tank is shit." *5 seconds later* "JK I don't want penalty." Shortly after that he started purposely wiping the party by aggroing Ifrit before we were ready. I mean are you serious? If I wasn't cautious of being banned on forums I'd have their name posted everywhere. This was the worst DF experience I've had this whole time.

[Hagito]

That's weird from all the duty finder parties I have had, even if they weren't good still had no rage. Guess it's the vibe you add to it? They probably are new to the instance, better explain, or they're having a bad day. Remember people play games to enjoy, not to be raging and frustrated.

I have had no problems so far and I DF a lot.

[Arkghyom]

DF= Tutorial Dungeons

[Munashe]

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The perfect post. This should be made into a news article and named "The Natural Evolution of the Internet A**hole"

[AllOutWar]

As much as people saying "WoW is a cesspool because of its random group finder!", I can say that I never had the mispleasure of seeing even a fraction of the QQing that I've seen in this game so far.

You're either trolling or you never played WOW before. WOW has to have the most toxic community ever. Even worse than the crap people talk while playing call of duty games.