I want to preface this by saying I am a casual scrub. In fact, to call me a casual scrub would be a compliment. I am by no means a great player, but I am competent...
Have we really reached the point where we're now actively catering to players who cannot be bothered to learn their jobs, read their tooltips, and actually press buttons?
I understand brand new players having difficulty learning the ropes in the first few levels of the game, and I love guiding new players on their paths, but when a small number of people are complaining about not being able to smash a solo duty at level 70... LEVEL SEVENTY... when everyone else can clear it with absolute ease, and those people are catered to instead of suggesting they simply learn their role...
"But if you can clear these fights easily, why do you care?" I hear you cry.
Because when people are given an easy option to clear already basic content, this spills over into Duty Finder, which on Chaos DC is already a sea of Ice Mages, zero-DPS healers, Tanks who only pull one mob at a time, and Paladins who insist on using Clemency on themselves at 95% HP.
Duty Finder gets filled with the kind of players who aren't pushed to learn their job properly, or even to a competent level, and then everyone suffers.
Guess it looks like I'll be running content with my FC in future, because wew lads.
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Have we really reached the point where we're now actively catering to players who cannot be bothered to learn their jobs, read their tooltips, and actually press buttons?
I understand brand new players having difficulty learning the ropes in the first few levels of the game, and I love guiding new players on their paths, but when a small number of people are complaining about not being able to smash a solo duty at level 70... LEVEL SEVENTY... when everyone else can clear it with absolute ease, and those people are catered to instead of suggesting they simply learn their role...
"But if you can clear these fights easily, why do you care?" I hear you cry.
Because when people are given an easy option to clear already basic content, this spills over into Duty Finder, which on Chaos DC is already a sea of Ice Mages, zero-DPS healers, Tanks who only pull one mob at a time, and Paladins who insist on using Clemency on themselves at 95% HP.
Duty Finder gets filled with the kind of players who aren't pushed to learn their job properly, or even to a competent level, and then everyone suffers.
Guess it looks like I'll be running content with my FC in future, because wew lads.
Continue reading...