The players in your group had reasonable concerns. You have 40k health, PVP gear, and resto staff abilities on a s&b that would have been useless. You've done a couple dozen dungeons and been fortunate enough, from the sounds of it, to have really good teammates who can get through them with you.
marshill88 wrote: »Yes, elitists....that is exactly how they act. the delusion is they think the other guy is "below" them, but most likely they are the weak who need to be carried so they have to inspect people's setup and don't you dare have a setup they don't "approve" of. No, they aren't elite, they are spoiled and entitled and only think they are elite. Put them in a BG and they'll be dead before they even get into the flag circle.
marshill88 wrote: »Well I knew it was bound to happen...I queue up for a 4 person dungeon to do undaunted quests and I get kicked before we even began. I've been doing dungeon queues only for about a week, and I've already had at least a couple dozen runs, everyone is so friendly and most runs have been smooth. I queue up as a healer, I'm a magcro and I have a pretty powerful heal build. I've gotten several compliments from BG's keeping my teammates alive. I'm not a pro healer, but I'm pretty decent. My entire build for this dungeon run is for heals, both bars are loaded with healing skills.
So the moment I enter the dungeon, I'm just snacking on my chips and salsa and I didn't even read the screen....one of the guys in there was immediately challenging me on my "build". This kind of thing has never happened to me before (I've read about it on the forums, but now I get to experience it).
My happy demeanor immediately changed and I decided this guy was giving me a judgmental audit.
Here is the entire conversation from the moment I entered the dungeon to the moment I was kicked, which was all of about 60 seconds. He didn't even let me go on a single fight.
I'm blacking out the names to protect players. My intent with this post is to just vent about one of those rude players you hear about who love to kick people who don't measure up to their stereotypes and presuppositions.
I had waited a while for my dungeon run to start, so it was kind of disappointing to be booted like that. I wondered why other group members just "go along" when a know-it-all decides to kick someone. Funny, if I was in a group and someone was trying to kick a player for this, I'd probably start a vote to kick them instead. I like to stand up for the little guy, but that's just me.
I'm just venting, it feels better to come here and share my experiences sometimes. I understand this sort of thing is probably common place and it's all good, even though players who do this are pretty lame in my book.
marshill88 wrote: »
no, mate. I showed up for a vet dungeon, possibly 20 minutes, most of which are simple. Kind of like showing up at a 5 year olds birthday party to blow some bubbles, it's not that difficult. is it really that hard for you? PVP trounces most PVE content in difficulty. And if you don't like the gear someone has, you would boot them without even asking them to switch it huh?
It all comes down to this: A player boots someone before even asking them to change skills, before even letting the run begin....and that is lame. Will always be lame, always was lame.
SeaGtGruff wrote: »But the OP didn't come here for help, they came to vent a little. They didn't ask anyone to explain why they got kicked, and they didn't ask for any pearls of wisdom about healer builds. If you feel like your advice is falling on deaf ears-- well, you're giving advice where none was asked for, which in any other general situation in life would be called "unwelcome advice."
Dalsinthus wrote: »This thread is a great example of the "play as you want" design philosophy running headlong into the goal of working together as a team to accomplish some challenging goal. At some level these two things are incompatable at least when you're getting to the upper end of PVE content like vet DLC dungeons and vet trials.
OP may be able to heal and get through group content on this setup for normal dungeons and some vets. Basegame dungeons are largely forgiving. But a well built pve healer or dd is going to contribute a lot more to the group than a character built for pvp survival. For vet Fungal Grotto, it probably doesn't matter, but in vet MHK it certainly will. That's not elitism so much as just the basic reality of game design.
marshill88 wrote: »
everything you said I agree with except for one thing (you didn't say this, but it's implied based on your approval of the actions in the OP)
Booting someone before a run even begins based on your own judgmental pre-inspection of them and not giving them a chance or showing any desire whatsoever to be a teammate to them (just a BOOTER) is elitism. It is rude, obnoxious and elitist.
I now see a large majority of players in this thread wholeheartedly approve of this kind of rude behavior, which is a little surprising, I have some theories on that. But I sincerely hope I will never become the kind of player who does that to others. It's just such a poor sport way to interact with other people, no player deserves to get booted so fast. By the way, I had never been to that dungeon before.
Action: kicking someone immediately before a run begins based on your perception of them.
you (and many others in this thread, probably the majority of people in this thread) approve of that kind of behavior, and that simply means I'm a different kind of player than you.
Frankly, I don't see that as bullying. I see a group as being genuinely confused by your setup with the role you've decided. It's a valid concern they had.
While DPS is just as crucial as healers and tanks, healers are vital to the group's survival, and it appears they didn't trust your setup to help them get through the content without issue. Also, what they say about "sword and board 40k health healer" is valid. A pure healer is NOT going to have 40k HP sporting a sword and shield. So you might want to audit your spec on a site like Alcasthq.com and see how you can alter it to bring your A-game to group content.
Whoa there. It wasn't implied.
For the record, I wouldn't have kicked you. Seeing 40k health and a S&B on a healer would have raised my eyebrows, but that's it. You get what you get with the dungeon finder. I've run in lots of PUG groups with worse and we usually muddle through.
kringled_1 wrote: »
I'm not disagreeing with what you said, but you've put the onus in this scenario on the dps to stay out of the red and do their job (dps), tank to taunt and position mobs, and healer to I guess occasionally cast some kind of heal? No debuffs, no buffs, no damage. Even if the group is more than capable of hard carrying a healer who's not contributing, it's a bit aggravating to do that for someone who's clearly not prepared to do their job as most people expect. I'm going to guess that most groups would much sooner take a mag dps with some offheal than this mountain of health.
marshill88 wrote: »
everything you said I agree with except for one thing (you didn't say this, but it's implied based on your approval of the actions in the OP)
Booting someone before a run even begins based on your own judgmental pre-inspection of them and not giving them a chance or showing any desire whatsoever to be a teammate to them (just a BOOTER) is elitism. It is rude, obnoxious and elitist.
I now see a large majority of players in this thread wholeheartedly approve of this kind of rude behavior, which is a little surprising, I have some theories on that. But I sincerely hope I will never become the kind of player who does that to others. It's just such a poor sport way to interact with other people, no player deserves to get booted so fast. By the way, I had never been to that dungeon before. I always show up at a dungeon with a desire to be helpful not a detriment. Immediate booting in 60 seconds speaks volume as to the type of player I hope I will never become.
Action: kicking someone immediately before a run begins based on your perception of them.
you (and many others in this thread, probably the majority of people in this thread) approve of that kind of behavior. I see that kind of behavior as pathetic, but others see it as wholesome. Well, I'm not coming to your side on this and hopefully never will, so that simply means I'm a different kind of player than you. So be it, I'm ok with the differences. I will just be more careful to not choose teammates who are elitist.
marshill88 wrote: »You boot someone immediately within 1 minute of arriving, just by looking at them? You call it a "reasonable concern". No, mate, it is not a reasonable concern. A concern is a polite message, "Hey, this boss in this dungeon is XYZ, can you do strategy XYZ?"
But no, you just ban. I call it out as rude and obnoxious. I don't know why players in these forums expect me (or other people who don't like being booted like this) to just lie back and say you're being helpful. Guess what? When you summarily boot someone before the run begins, you are not being helpful. You are being rude. I'm defending my view here on this thread, the majority are on the side of the elitist, so that is why you perceive me in this thread as being rude.
The rude behavior is by the players who boot people because they fail a pre-run inspection and don't even give them a chance. Call me rude, go for it, but I wont back down from this position. If I play ESO for 2 more years, I sincerely hope I will never become the type of player who just boots people based on what I see. You approve of it...you are a different kind of player than me, and we both have our opinions.
marshill88 wrote: »Booting someone before a run even begins based on your own judgmental pre-inspection of them and not giving them a chance or showing any desire whatsoever to be a teammate to them (just a BOOTER) is elitism. It is rude, obnoxious and elitist.
marshill88 wrote: »
then my apologies. It seemed like you stated the actions of the guy who kicked me in 60 seconds were not elitism, it read to me like a subtle defense of booting someone immediately on queue-up. It sure seems like elitism to me.
spartaxoxo wrote: »That's it. I don't expect more than that from group finder and I'm somehow still often disappointed because even these bare minimums are not being met.
I don't expect good players because it's a random collection of multiple different levels of skill, newcomer and vets.
It's unrealistic to expect everyone to be on their A-game when using the activity finder. You are going to encounter a variety of players from all walks of life, many with unusual or less than optimal builds. So people need to prepare themselves for that reality before using this tool. If a person has specific demands of a build, such as certain health requirements or no sword and shield then they should make their own group.
I haven't seen the OP in action, so I don't know if he or she can actually heal or not. But what I do know is that having 40k health and a sword and shield equipped on one of their bars would not automatically exempt them from being able to heal. So the kick was unjustified. They need to remove whatever addon that allows players to view another player's health. Because I see all kinds of crap thrown at other players over that, and at least 90% of the time it's unjustified.
That said, would you agree that "sword and board 40k health healer" is not A-game material? The very nature of whatever build and specs OP is using demonstrates they are not optimum for the role they chose for the dungeon, regardless of how well they perform. Case in point, my spec is pure DPS, and it even has minimal aggro pulling, but I wouldn't be at my A-game as a tank.
FantasticFreddie wrote: »I'm just out here thinking these dungeons weren't actually on vet, that OP has confused dlc dungeons with vet dungeons or something.
I cannot imagine happily queueing up repeatedly for vet dungeons as my healer and waltzing through in 20 minutes unless there was some incredible luck involved.
marshill88 wrote: »My bad for assuming good will on others. And this is the point no one in this thread has said except me, you can change gear and skills mid-run. If my build isn't working, I have plenty of skills and a full set of DPS gear in my inventory. For goodness sakes, why can't elitists just give players a chance?
marshill88 wrote: »My entire build for this dungeon run is for heals, both bars are loaded with healing skills.
marshill88 wrote: »
but every now and then u get an elitist RP'er who takes it all way too seriously and boots people before even starting a run without giving them a chance. My bad for assuming good will on others. And this is the point no one in this thread has said except me, you can change gear and skills mid-run. If my build isn't working, I have plenty of skills and a full set of DPS gear in my inventory. For goodness sakes, why can't elitists just give players a chance? Maybe that guy you are booting can actually perform, or be able to switch skills for the final boss? But no, just boot them, such as it is I suppose.
The elitists are out there, I hope I don't queue up with them, (most of the time I don't), but with random queues, always a chance.
marshill88 wrote: »as i said in my OP, i'm not a pro-healer, just queuing up for casual fun, as most dungeon runs are a blitz and entirely casual,
LOL. They didn't come off as "elitist RP" by any stretch of the imagination. They didn't understand your build, and you being AFK didn't help matters as you weren't there to defend your setup.
Most people know what DPS, healer, and tank should look like.
- Tank - sword/board with lots of health and the ability to hold threat (not present: boss attacks and kills other players.)
- Healer - staff with lots of Magicka (not present: people die from bursty damage.)
- DPS - shows up in the DPS numbers with 10-15k min in general and more on more challenging content like Trials. Even players with low CPs and pump out these numbers. (not present: takes too long to kill a boss.)
I think you're overreacting. 🙂
If you'll forgive this impression, but it sounds like you want the group to carry you as a healer essentially. I mean that they're killing stuff so fast that you don't even need to heal much. You might even DPS or tank a little, which your sword/board 40K hp would make possible.
That's not what a PvE healer is supposed to do.
marshill88 wrote: »Well I knew it was bound to happen...I queue up for a 4 person dungeon to do undaunted quests and I get kicked before we even began. I've been doing dungeon queues only for about a week, and I've already had at least a couple dozen runs, everyone is so friendly and most runs have been smooth. I queue up as a healer, I'm a magcro and I have a pretty powerful heal build. I've gotten several compliments from BG's keeping my teammates alive. I'm not a pro healer, but I'm pretty decent. My entire build for this dungeon run is for heals, both bars are loaded with healing skills.
So the moment I enter the dungeon, I'm just snacking on my chips and salsa and I didn't even read the screen....one of the guys in there was immediately challenging me on my "build". This kind of thing has never happened to me before (I've read about it on the forums, but now I get to experience it).
My happy demeanor immediately changed and I decided this guy was giving me a judgmental audit.
Here is the entire conversation from the moment I entered the dungeon to the moment I was kicked, which was all of about 60 seconds. He didn't even let me go on a single fight.
I'm blacking out the names to protect players. My intent with this post is to just vent about one of those rude players you hear about who love to kick people who don't measure up to their stereotypes and presuppositions.
I had waited a while for my dungeon run to start, so it was kind of disappointing to be booted like that. I wondered why other group members just "go along" when a know-it-all decides to kick someone. Funny, if I was in a group and someone was trying to kick a player for this, I'd probably start a vote to kick them instead. I like to stand up for the little guy, but that's just me.
I'm just venting, it feels better to come here and share my experiences sometimes. I understand this sort of thing is probably common place and it's all good, even though players who do this are pretty lame in my book.
I just got kicked from black drake villa, cause I didn't have time to do the secret bosses. I thought that was incredibly lame of them to do that, always great when you tell them it sucks, and they come back to taunt you and block. I was doing 60-70% of the damage, so unfortunately I am hoping for ill will on them, that they didn't complete the dungeon. I feel sorry for the other dumb dps who helped kick me, as it was the healer and tank who were together, and the dps who hit like a wet noodle, will probably get kicked when they realize they're dead weight. I guess that's what I get for not pairing up before randoming.