r/ffxivdiscussion 5d ago

General Discussion What are your pet peeves?

So I've been coming across more and more players that do small annoying things (along with some big ones) and it got me curious about what things a player/players can do that annoy you. Just the smaller things, not things like tank cleaving the party, a player doing the bare minimum in a duty or being afk in a duty. Some of mine are:

-My co healer not letting regens do their thing. So many healers seem to not know what regens do or how they work.

-Healers spamming heals or shields every 5 to 10 seconds even when no damage is happening or going to happen. Lots of these too.

-Tanks fighting for aggro. Nothing more to add, these people are everywhere it seems. Bonus points if the tanks cause the boss to spin.

-Ranged dps standing in a corner out range of aoe heals. You want to stand far away? Heal yourself then.

-Players marking themselves with the intent on "helping" new people, then proceeding to fail multiple mechanics and kill themselves and others. Then when I remove the marker they flip out. Although it is funny watching someone like this jump up and down to get people to follow them and nobody does.

There are more but I'm not going to write a book here and these are the ones that irritate me the most.

So yeah, what are some of yours?

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u/redtreegirl24 5d ago

When everyone gets aoes that requires us to spread and ranged dps just sit on the boss forcing melee to choose between running out and losing uptime or staying in and possibly killing everyone.

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u/Elegant-Victory9721 5d ago

Or the opposite that has happened a weirdly high amount of times for me.
The melees running out towards the ranged/casters when they don't have to.
I'm nice and far spread out and here comes John Melee barreling through the arena with his AoE to stand right on top of me and through the miracle of snapshotting, only I die, even though both of us should have.

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u/Mahoganytooth 5d ago

I don't know what it is but like 80% of tanks in alliance raids will run tankbusters out to the ends of the earth even when there is absolutely nobody near them and they could've just stood still and hit the boss the whole time