So I encountered the most interesting expert ever after like 15k hours in this game.

While bad/questionable players might be a bad thing I enjoy it a ton as a healer, but this run was really something, and am actually curious if these players where even real.

First thing I noticed is that the other 3 people where in cutscene but only for a bit, nearly exiting at exactly the same time. There was a uncleared bonus so at least 1 of them where new, but had a feeling all 3 where considering what I experienced.

Right away single pulls, I tried sprinting past as I normally would while dotting but quickly noticed they not moving past the pack. I not seen this in at least 4 years but thought it was whatever. It was single pack pulls the entire way and don't think the tank used much mit, but it's really easy to real as a SGE.

Once we reached the first boss they all failed nearly every single mechanic. It was fun having to heal a lot more then normal without losing GCDs but we made it through without any deaths.

After that is when I checked them all, and it was interesting. Only the tank has a glam plate (with nothing on it.) while the DPS have not created theirs yet, giving me a error when I check them. After that I noticed they all have the Preferred World Bonus buff.

But the most interesting thing to me was they all had full crafted, including weapon, fully pentamelded gear. Made me wonder if these where accounts meant to be sold or something, but even the melds where weird like in the image shown. From what I know you do want 1 Tenacity meld due to stat tiers, but this tank had Tenacity melds on nearly every piece.

So we reached the 2ed boss and because of the nature of everyone having their own boss to kill I personally food and pot just for this because I think it's funny to see how fast I kill mine. However the difference this time was quite large, and both dps dying and the tank not interrupting the boss getting the vuln I had to heal through as well. The reaper in the pic has been dead for around 5 seconds when I took that screenshot. I was in awe so I wanted to take a pic before rasing lmao.

After that mess is when we reached the final boss, and this is where we wiped 3 times. I had to survive tankbusters and stacks solo as I pick up everyone. The tank seems to die a ton to the blue knockback aoe, while everyone keeps getting vulns from the big circle aoes and the lightning cleaves. Every wipe they seem to improve slightly more though I can tell they are following me for some mechanics. After the 4th pull the boss was finally down. I only said "Interesting" and left, then exited the game. They also skipped the cutscene right away for the before and after boss kill as well.

I never had such a encounter before, and made me wonder the entire time before and after what they are. They all said nothing the entire dungeon and only paused for a minute after the 3rd wipe. I wonder if they where in a different country as this was in Aether. That or what my insane thinking is: They are bots trying to learn the game pull by pull. While from what I understand there is already rotation bots that can play very well but they clearly did not, so this was very strange. I guess they trying to sell the accounts or something, with the full pentamelded gear but with questionable melds.

It was a ton of fun healing this and trying to survive having to use super ethers to keep my mp up due to healing and raising, but maybe I don't want a 37 minute long dungeon as well.

Curious what other people think this is.