"Such spam...this was not my intention!"
tl;dr: Not mad but genuinely confused and I'm not sure if I found a troll, a lazy fuck or someone who genuinely doesn't know how to play the game.
Friend wanted to do roulettes, I said sure, why the fuck not. Party up, he's on sage and I'm on black mage. We queue up, and it's a wait before the first roulette he chose, alliance, to pop.
When it finally did pop, we were both pleasantly surprised that it was Royal City of Rabidnasty. I'm just glad it wasn't Crystal Tower for the umpteenth time again this week. We get to the first boss, and after a bit my friend noticed that a viper in our party was bottom of the barrel in aggro compared to everyone else, including the healers.
Second boss we noticed it more, even after some of our dps died and were raised, he would get bumped back down in aggro. I ended up flipping the number monkey on when the second trashset after the second boss was dead, because something was seriously wrong with this viper.
Third boss I get to see that the viper in question was literal bottom of the barrel in dps, and both of us were wondering why. It had been a while since I last played viper myself, so watching the guy keep his distance then come in close to the boss and then run away was just baffling to see. He kept this up on the last boss as well when we both were paying attention to him.
We cleared with some deaths, interestingly enough said viper did not die, and I take a moment to look at the logs.
Writhing Snap spam. Literal Writhing Snap spam. Everything else looks like a misclick.
And then I looked him up on the Lodestone because this has to be someone who just unlocked viper.
No, no he was not new to viper.
How in the holy fuck do you get to level 98 as a viper and not have some sort of idea of how the job plays? You have so many shiny buttons at your disposal, even in a lvl 70 raid, to NOT be THE bottom guy.
My friend, who loves viper, took a look at the logs and decided that was enough roulettes for the day and asked if we could just do Occult Crescent instead.
I honestly thought Viper wasn't that hard to learn. It's like monk but with a few extra steps. Then again I have to remind myself that a lot of players out there, if you lower the bar to the floor, still can't make it over.