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>Daspien
That guy pissed me off early on in FT. We had a minor argument in voice chat about the snipers. At the time I didn't know it was ABBA's policy to cater to snipers and include them in the run even if they took the spot of someone on the roster so I was like "why the fuck are we rezzing the snipers?" after a near-wipe with a chem raise and he was like "They're playing the game like we are? why wouldn't me?" after I just got out of a different group with a very different policy. He couldn't give a compelling reason other than "I'm the party lead so what I say goes".

At the time, the snipers were always tank/chem with no arcanaut gear so their contribution was negative because their presence increased the boss HP while their damage contribution did not make up for it. No tanking, cuz stance is off, low damage because they are tank, no arc gear, and chemist as their job, and no essential role for clearing bridges or lockwards etc. Just dead weight dragging down the party and in a prog party no less where you want everyone to be contributing.

Anyway I sent him a big message in discord about how wrong he was and he was like "ok just don't join any of my runs" and I did just that. I heard his party was constantly wiping to bridges because they kept taking in total randoms that sniped in or prog lied and didn't have a clue.

It turned out the only reason why everyone was so gung-ho about helping snipers was because they incorrectly believed they would get banned for simply not rezzing them. So it was out of fear and not the "kindness of their hearts" or anything like that, just self-preservation.

Despite the "official ABBA policy" nobody else except that guy actually catered to snipers like that. Everyone else left them dead on the floor when they died. The only exception was this person named "Lamia Kitsune". He sniped Loki's run so much that Loki just started to roster him and he even joined voice chat and everything. That was kind of an exception.

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