Titan HM trollFollow

Just had a DF experience with a naked PLD Spoilernamed Zero Three, he aggros Titan and then stops moving so party dies.

Is it really that fun to troll folks? I know he wins because some one else will always take the 15 minute hit and as a tank he'll insta-queue... but where's the fun in that?

DF Titan is already a losing battle before you even start, why force it?

Has anyone else run into this?

Personally I think we should be able to ruin the ability of these pieces of **** to play the game, somehow. Some way to ruin their veil of anonymity.

Did you guys just strip all of your armor off? Because that's the problem, they're forcing needless in game costs of repairs, and real world costs of time (dd DF wait time is ridiculous still). I thought about it, but honestly I don't have an hour plus of my time to waste letting an idiot have fun.

My blacklist is almost full and I've reported at least half of the names on it... only two have ever shown as deleted. I dunno what SE is focusing on right now, but reported folks ain't one of them at this time.

You'll forgive me if I remain a bit gun shy for a little longer but that's encouraging to hear. I was starting to feel discouraged over my swelling blist list.

To be fair, that isn't a DF issue so much as it is an issue of player choice.

There are 2 tank jobs (PLD and WAR), 2 healer jobs (WHM and SCH), and 5 DD jobs (BRD, SMN, DRG, MNK, BLM).

Since DF breakdown consists of 2 Tank + 2 Healer + 4 DD, that means if all things were equal, there would be almost no wait for tanks and healers, and a short wait for DD (by virtue of the fact that they have five classes attempting to fit into four spots).

But, as is the case in many MMO's, most people want to deal the big damage. Tanking is the most unpopular role overall, with healing a close second. DD's are a dime a dozen however, which is why I can get on my WAR and get a DF pop almost instantly, but my DRG takes anywhere from 5-60 minutes, with the tank almost always being the slot to fill last.

SMN has an advantage in this, in that they are also a SCH (assuming they have done the quests, which are trivial for a 50 SMN to accomplish). There is some disparity in gear usage as the levels tick past 40, but I know of more than one SMN who opts to run SCH when it comes time for Myth and Phil tome farming, simply because the Q's are faster.

Having said that, yes, it sucks when some ******* tank comes along and ruins the DF run of anyone's instance. DD can be replaced (and often are). But the DF itself is not the problem. It would be wonderful if SE implemented some sort of rating system however, where you rate someone's performance in a dungeon (something simple, such as a 1-5 rating scale on three questions). If someone leaves early, a new option pops up allowing you and your group to label them a "leaver." If a person accrues enough "leaver" score in, say, the course of 2-3 days, then they are punished in some way, such as being unable to access any DF content (or BC too for that matter) for a period of 24-72 hours. They can still play the game, do FATE's, craft or what have you, but they can't run into an instance and troll the crap out of people.

I clear my blist weekly and have yet to see any of those name pop back up, and find myself adding far fewer names week by week as well. SE's making progress here.

The big one now on Ultros is Goldceo Com<randomletters> sending /tells every 30-60 minutes. "Politely" asking me to go to the website in his name. This one is actually in decent English, not the broken garbage that is usually sent. Probably 3-5 of those a day playing. Makes me wish I could blist all characters with the Goldceo as their first name.

The occasional "1337" garbage website spam, pv bank or what not, but that's only maybe one every other day.

I think in the last three weeks I have had to blist one character for /shout spam.

Report them and move on. I do the same with the 8 man leechers. Have the group report them, drop out, and reque. Sure it sucks, because some type of kick feature needs to be added, but the situation is what it is. These players are acting stupidly and being incredibly reckless. This is ban worthy behavior and it will catch up to them. Just don't enable their enjoyment/benefit.

That's really all you can do at this point, until they implement further countermeasures. Lord, I wish they had a kick function.

The good news is, they are implementing require iLevel gear on some of the DF activities (if not all), and a rating system.

The bad news is, there is nothing that can stop people who want to mess with people. They have been here since the dawn of online interactive gaming, and they will never leave.

Time to time, they get suspended or banned, but currently there is no known cure for stupid.

it was never a thing; think about how ridiculous that idea is, there's no shortage of people willing to pay for titan, and it would be a huge waste of time to throw fights on the off chance that one of the players would then come to you with gil for a win. it's just crappy people trolling fr the lulz.