149171-the-hll-is-this

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I was doing Protogames Academy with my lv 16 warrior, I queued as a tank since I have been playing +support and I want to get good at tanking. After a while queue popped and after a while I noticed our healer was not healing at all, but instead another party member claimed he was boosting us. However, I, for one did not have a clue as to how to dps and had no interest to do so even if I did. I asked nicely if healer could focus on healing so we could run content as it's supposed to and we would all get some experience on how to play our preferred roles. He couldn't. Instead she insisted on this so called boosting which seemed to meant he dpsed instead of healing. One of our members claimed that I was being immature and kept saying that we actually WERE doing the content as intended. I disagreed.
 
After a while we wiped two times at the final boss, some ppl from our group shared my opinion that if everyone went with their chosen roles we would get it done, however these people felt it was my attitude that was the problem here. "u wont survive with that kind of attitude lv 50"
 
So not I'm asking you, what the hell was that? Is that the mindset of majority around here? Was it I being the problem asking people to stick to their jobs to run smoothly? If asking people to do the parts they are signed for and run content as intended is considered childish and immature in the end game I'd rather quit now than waste my time playing this awesome game.
 
/rant
 
(sorry, had to let some steam out)	
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That is the unfortunate attitude some people have. As a healer, I never switched to dps in the middle of a dungeon unless it is low level content. Even on low level content however, I carry healing abilities along side damage abilities since my gear carries the rest (gear scaling is a joke).
 
I have no idea what they mean by boosting and have played since launch. Maybe I am out of the loop.
 
As far as level 50, I carry the same attitude you do. Everyone has their roles, everyone has their job. Do your dang job! Lol. And I have survived quite well.
 
The only times I ever notice anyone changing what they do is occasionally you have an over geared tank who will switch to dps spec if the healer can keep them up.	
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			I understand fully well that when people outgear stuff and have free time on their hands, mainly healers, they should contribute to dps when possible. However, I do not understand that teammates die, group wipes and healer still claims to boost :D Further, I would appreciate it if such thoughts would be mentioned and opened for discussion; ie. "Is it okay if X does Y instead since reason Z", no problem.I quess it all boils down to finding ppl you like playing with who share same mentality. As always.	
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			Is there not kick tools?	
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			No, this is not typical. The only time I see people go outside their assigned roles is when they outgear the content.	
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			But where you holding threat?	
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But where you holding threat?
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			If he was "carrying" then he should of had threat. Bad dps is bad	
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From your side of the story it seems to me that you were 100% correct. I wouldn't sweat this incident just write it off to 'jerks gonna be jerky' and hope the next group of randoms are better. 
For what it's worth I'm guildless so I only pug/lfd and I've had some pretty great experiences with people even when I made dumb mistakes ( I'm looking at you Skullcano last boss) even offered to leave groups because I thought I was holding them back and been asked to stay so I can learn. 
So don't give up after one bad experience there are a lot of really great people in this community. 	
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From your side of the story it seems to me that you were 100% correct. I wouldn't sweat this incident just write it off to 'jerks gonna be jerky' and hope the next group of randoms are better. 
For what it's worth I'm guildless so I only pug/lfd and I've had some pretty great experiences with people even when I made dumb mistakes ( I'm looking at you Skullcano last boss) even offered to leave groups because I thought I was holding them back and been asked to stay so I can learn. 
So don't give up after one bad experience there are a lot of really great people in this community. 
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 One of our members claimed that I was being immature and kept saying that we actually WERE doing the content as intended. I disagreed.
 
 however these people felt it was my attitude that was the problem here. "u wont survive with that kind of attitude lv 50"
 
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Yea, I always run into people that are willing to leave a group so we can que for better geared people. I think they feel bad or something. I am one of those people who request that they stay.
 
I beat this statement to death, and I still have to do it to veteran players that love to hit the "disband group" button when they get Ultimate Protogames or Proto academy.
"You will never learn the content if you don't do it". That usually prompts them to stay because then they feel like it is a challenge. If they disband anyways, I can only assume that they were incapable of doing it =P.
It works about 90% of the time.
 
You are more than welcome to add me. I'll run with you, vets or normals. I am not picky, I just enjoy content. I'll PM you.
Also, if you are guildless, you should join TCO (The Crescent Order). They are pretty active and there are a lot of players that are in your situation. It would help you network with people that have the same goals you do. I just helped a player there earlier tonight get the first part of his attunement done (bronze in the first 4 dungeons). Tomorrow we are going to finish the rest of it.
 
I think TCO even has a circle you can join if you don't want to be tied to a guild. The Circle, as I understand it, is oriented around veterans helping newer players. 
 
SlyJeff can fill you in with more information if you are interested in that.
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i boosted myself and i dont know how you can wipe in this dungeon... two times... so yea they were not good at what they did and should have changed their roles to do the content as intended. 
You will see the same patterns at lvl 50 as well which is mostly people outgearing the content and therefore can ignore mechanics and run 4+ dps setups.
good players know when they can do cheese strats and when they have to do the content as intented. the players you played with were idiots and yes there will be more idiots on your way and at lvl50.
most of the community is helpful and nice but those are the players who have a guild/friends and run with them. if you go with group tools you will often find players who dont know how to play or think they know how to play but have no real idea.	
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Kinda funny statement really, queued as healer performs dps role and claims it is intended lmao
I am afraid he won't make it at lvl 50 with that attitude 
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