
Originally Posted by
Voqar
/rant on
I have a tank, I love to tank, my tank is raid capable, I execute instance runs cleanly with a brisk but not suicidal pace and I don't rage if people need an afk or a moment (ie, I like to move fast but I'm not so preoccupided with speed that it's annoying), I don't mind answering questions or describing fights, but what is killing me in Rift and what makes me barely tolerate doing PUGs as a tank is...
crappy dpsers
I have no clue what prereqs there are for queing for T2's, but whatever they are, they are either WAY too lax or nonexistent. Far to many horribly geared, horribly specced, and/or stupid players get into T2's as DPS and contribute next to nothing. Ok. You don't need a perfect spec (and it would be difficult for trion to quantify this). You don't need to have a clue (trion can't really quantify this either) - go ahead, suck at one of the easiest MMORPGs ever. But somewhere, the gear, clue, and spec need to mesh such that you can do enough dps to help finish the instance before we all die of insanity.
Lots of people are skipping T1's these days. No. Make it stop. People should need the achievement for every T1 before queing for T2's. At bare minimum. Along with actually having at least a T1 gear level before doing T2's.
Trion could do a better job of rating gear, stats, something to qualify people for T2 queing.
It seems like now all a dps needs is 100 hit/focus and they can queue, which is stupid, because you can EASILY hit 100 hit/focus with a ton of greens and low level blues equipped and runes help fudge and push the idiocy further. I'm sorry, but your level 45-50 greens and your level 30-50 blues, and your trinket that gives you extra xp up to lvl 20 are NOT really gear you should still be using in T2's.
How do people get to level 50 and still have a trinket that hasn't done anything in 30 levels equipped? I've seen this on several 50's in T2's.
Yesterday I had a melee dps in my T2 group dual wielding 2 greens....how is this even possible? In the same group one of the dps did under 100 dps on a boss fight. I like DPS meters. I know how to use them in context. The meter is not everything. It's just a tool. But there is no context in a T2 boss fight where 100 dps is even remotely acceptable. Maybe from the healer if they're bored and dpsing. I'm almost doing 100 dps on rift stage 5 bosses on my lvl 14 alt (granted, it's fully runed, augmented crafted, OP event weapon, loaded boa sigil (as loaded as one can be at lvl 14), and I have somewhat of a clue).
The above illustrates the problem at its worst. Having one irresponsible DPSer doing crap dps in a group drags it down some. Having THREE horrific DPSers in the same group (assuming you use no support, which I don't, because my healer can handle, and I run a warlord tank build to buff the group some) is nothing but pure torture.
The even crazier thing is that so many players are perfectly fine with getting carried. It's like their god given right to suck and inflict misery on other players doing T2's for a few weeks to sponge gear while not contributing. And hey, trion's system fully supports it, so why not? Well, because you cry that no tanks queue...and you wonder why...well, this is one reason.
I also queue dps with my friend's other healer, and we very rarely have bad tanks. I'd say 4/5 are very good and that 1/5 are either slightly clueless or slightly undergeared, but it's rare to have a truly bad tank in T2's because most people don't want to suck or fail so badly at tanking (or the group would end immediately due to wiping on the first trash pull).
Why do dpsers, who are the bottom feeders, who are doing the easiest role, who have no responsibility except to point and shoot and maybe not die stupidly standing in goo, get to be such slackers, and why do they get to queue into T2's with gear that would be embarassing in regular lvl 50 instances?
Arrrrggggg!
C'mon DPSers, this game isn't that hard. It's not that hard to come up with a decent build, it isn't that hard to come up with gear, nothing about this game is really all that difficult...try...just a little...please?
/rant off
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