I've had a few encounters in my roulettes lately that have left me slightly concerned for some of their newer players. Basically, a healer or a tank shows up and visibly struggles to play the game, but when I try to speak to them, another party member claims to be their friend and dismisses any concerns.
To have this happen several times in one week isn't something I usually experience. I'm used to seeing a few bad players who don't read their tooltips - a while back I saw a Ninja at level 90 who was using Throwing Dagger as a melee attack all the time. But this added feature of a friend who rebuffs advice is a new one for me. I'm still trying to guess if these were just trolls or actually this obstructive.
I've had a White Mage in the Praetorium who couldn't find out how to target the tank during battle, used Medica I for single-target healing, and had no time to attack anything because they spent every free moment putting Regen on players who were already topped off. Then I had a Dark Knight with a Nidhogg extreme weapon who kept using Stalwart Soul on the Ultima Weapon without the combo effect, spammed Unmend in melee range, and facetanked every AoE and proximity marker that touched them.
Whenever this happens, the bad player never says a peep in the chat. The only people actually replying to anything are the "friends" who'll say something like, and I quote: "he is an Tanknewbie .. i trraimhim", or get offended that I'm offering to help. They always insist the bad player will be fine because "he has friends to learn from", but y'know, it doesn't seem like those friends are actually helping much when we're on level 50-60 and the player is still struggling with basic input and reading tooltips.
What do you all think? Are these friend groups just that bad, or is this some elaborate prank?
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To have this happen several times in one week isn't something I usually experience. I'm used to seeing a few bad players who don't read their tooltips - a while back I saw a Ninja at level 90 who was using Throwing Dagger as a melee attack all the time. But this added feature of a friend who rebuffs advice is a new one for me. I'm still trying to guess if these were just trolls or actually this obstructive.
I've had a White Mage in the Praetorium who couldn't find out how to target the tank during battle, used Medica I for single-target healing, and had no time to attack anything because they spent every free moment putting Regen on players who were already topped off. Then I had a Dark Knight with a Nidhogg extreme weapon who kept using Stalwart Soul on the Ultima Weapon without the combo effect, spammed Unmend in melee range, and facetanked every AoE and proximity marker that touched them.
Whenever this happens, the bad player never says a peep in the chat. The only people actually replying to anything are the "friends" who'll say something like, and I quote: "he is an Tanknewbie .. i trraimhim", or get offended that I'm offering to help. They always insist the bad player will be fine because "he has friends to learn from", but y'know, it doesn't seem like those friends are actually helping much when we're on level 50-60 and the player is still struggling with basic input and reading tooltips.
What do you all think? Are these friend groups just that bad, or is this some elaborate prank?
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