Only time id ever give advice, is thru voice chat on a discord. Anything you type into chat in FFXIV can be reported. Anything, even if its just general talk in the middle of Limsa. Whats worse? Three Red Flags on your account, no matter how b.s it is, and your permabanned. No appeal, no explaination, your done. Never ever, give advice ingame unless its with friends you can trust.
Giving advice and not giving advice is a double edge-sword. When you give them advice, it's to help them improve but they will take it as aggressive stance because you are dictating how they should play the game. Not giving advice, is well...They'll never improve and will just keep on being terrible at the game. I'm a flex, I know the inner workings of each jobs in the game, I know how to heal, tank and DPS with no problem. And recently, I've transitioned from main healing to tanking, and I've noticed that there's a A LOT of terrible healers there, and hilariously enough, they are mentors and the sprouts is a hit or miss, but most sprouts are competent enough as a healer. Everyone is in a strange headspace when they play their own jobs, especially on high level content. This is true to mentors, they are extremely bad.
God I know exactly what video you're talking about. Dude makes it seem like its your DUTY as a XIV player to give advice. Nah bro. Fuck that. I'm in my lane.
I hate the, "You don't pay my sub thing." Crap just drives me nuts. It's always over them overreacting over something stupid as well. "Like, hey, the boss has a pool under him that keeps killing you. Please don't walk in it..." "You don't pay my sub! Leave me alone and play your own game. I don't want your help!" Immediately walks right into the pool and dies. I don't raise them. I get reported for toxicity. Luckily, I got a good mod that took my side.
I've been on FFXIV for over 5 years and minding my own business has mostly kept me from getting into trouble. The only instances I've had were I've been reported is when I first started FFXIV and named my cat boy BigDickDaddy. The second time was recently when someone on Primal North America data center reported my Adventure plate. Those two situations boils down to people being straight up snowflake's. 10 out of 10 times of you're minding your own business on FFXIV you won't get into trouble with other players. If you feel the need to tell someone what to do or you're a mentor you MUST MAKE SURE YOU WORD YOUR DIRECTIONS IN A WAY THAT WILL NOT MAKE YOU SOUND LIKE A DICK RESULTING IN YOU GETTING REPORTED.
the best way to give advice is through macros or direct information don't tell people what to do, just show them useful information about the fight, in real time it's what most of us have done in order to have succesful mentor roulette runs like "CAST X = out" "CAST Y = in" for 80% of the fights you get in roulettes though, you won't need anything like that just some specific raids and trials can sometimes require a bit of explanation even on normal at the end of the day you can always mark yourself with a dorito and that will usually be more help than any message ever sent
Only time id ever give advice, is thru voice chat on a discord. Anything you type into chat in FFXIV can be reported. Anything, even if its just general talk in the middle of Limsa. Whats worse? Three Red Flags on your account, no matter how b.s it is, and your permabanned. No appeal, no explaination, your done.
Never ever, give advice ingame unless its with friends you can trust.
Counterpoint: Advice is helpful when offered correctly and well received. If they don't want it then don't give it to them.
never use chat in FFXIV
Giving advice and not giving advice is a double edge-sword. When you give them advice, it's to help them improve but they will take it as aggressive stance because you are dictating how they should play the game. Not giving advice, is well...They'll never improve and will just keep on being terrible at the game.
I'm a flex, I know the inner workings of each jobs in the game, I know how to heal, tank and DPS with no problem. And recently, I've transitioned from main healing to tanking, and I've noticed that there's a A LOT of terrible healers there, and hilariously enough, they are mentors and the sprouts is a hit or miss, but most sprouts are competent enough as a healer. Everyone is in a strange headspace when they play their own jobs, especially on high level content. This is true to mentors, they are extremely bad.
I’d risk the ban to tell the boosted tank to use their mit
God I know exactly what video you're talking about. Dude makes it seem like its your DUTY as a XIV player to give advice. Nah bro. Fuck that. I'm in my lane.
I hate the, "You don't pay my sub thing." Crap just drives me nuts. It's always over them overreacting over something stupid as well. "Like, hey, the boss has a pool under him that keeps killing you. Please don't walk in it..." "You don't pay my sub! Leave me alone and play your own game. I don't want your help!" Immediately walks right into the pool and dies. I don't raise them. I get reported for toxicity. Luckily, I got a good mod that took my side.
I've been on FFXIV for over 5 years and minding my own business has mostly kept me from getting into trouble. The only instances I've had were I've been reported is when I first started FFXIV and named my cat boy BigDickDaddy.
The second time was recently when someone on Primal North America data center reported my Adventure plate. Those two situations boils down to people being straight up snowflake's.
10 out of 10 times of you're minding your own business on FFXIV you won't get into trouble with other players.
If you feel the need to tell someone what to do or you're a mentor you MUST MAKE SURE YOU WORD YOUR DIRECTIONS IN A WAY THAT WILL NOT MAKE YOU SOUND LIKE A DICK RESULTING IN YOU GETTING REPORTED.
FFXIV average playerbase don't care about other players. Just premade everything, exclude the masses, get a better play experience.
Using emotes is fast on playstation and no you don´t need to place any of them on your hotbar.
the best way to give advice is through macros or direct information
don't tell people what to do, just show them useful information about the fight, in real time
it's what most of us have done in order to have succesful mentor roulette runs
like
"CAST X = out"
"CAST Y = in"
for 80% of the fights you get in roulettes though, you won't need anything like that
just some specific raids and trials can sometimes require a bit of explanation even on normal
at the end of the day you can always mark yourself with a dorito and that will usually be more help than any message ever sent
Well said