What is it like to be unable to clear all of the content?

[Kelvani]

I am a classic casual player. I like to socialize. I am a crafting addict, and had all my crafts to 50 before I hit 50 on my main class, paladin. I enjoy a slow run through a zone, exploring the nooks and crannies to find the hidden stuff. So I guess I fit your demographic.

What stops me from having beaten all the content is not so much lack of ability to do it, as it is lack of focus on that content. I eventually will get there =D Why rush? After all there is only so much to do, and I don't have a lot of hours to play. Also, having a paladin as your main kind of makes it hard to do new content without catching flak over not knowing it by now =p That's cool, I have friends and Free Company buddies who have been awesome about explaining the bosses and content to me so I don't cause us to wipe. Also I have been lucky lately in getting great pugs in duty finder. I GOT my relic thanks to my FC and friends, but frankly didn't feel I earned it until the other day when I tanked Titan HM for someone else's relic.

I know that its hard to understand the casual players mindset. We want to stop and watch EVERY FLIPPING CUTSCENE (guilty as charged until I found out about watching them in the inn room). We laugh and joke and want to kill everything, and loot every chest (that's me yep yep!). Sometimes we make you want to pull your hair out when they don't get out of the stuff on the floor fast enough, or stun in time, or don't maximize our gear/material/rotations. However casual players are just that. Casual. We typically don't study our class. We don't watch every u-tube video. We don't parse our dps logs to see how we can squeeze out another 1%. We leave that to you guys and then read your posts =p

However.. a casual player, when taken under your wing, will usually listen to your advice and lap it up like a cat on catnip. If you tell them get X set of gear and use Y material.. they will without questioning your knowledge. Why? Cause they know you did your homework. If you tell them to tank a boss a certain way, they will. If you tell them to grab a certain cross class skill, and use a specific rotation, they will. WE DO APPRECIATE YOU GUYS and your theory crafting. Really we do. What we don't appreciate is being belittled for only being in ilvl69 gear for the 3rd week running. We also don't like to be called noob and vote kicked when we join you in the duty finder without you even trying a run with us. We are just trying to play a game, you know? Game's are supposed to be fun. =D

Bottom line.. we are just like you guys... only not so well equipped =D We do like to progress and get upgrades which is why we think we should get to roll on stuff when we attend a raid once a month vs every week (yes I know that's more of a wow thing). That's why we would like to join you in your coil groups, or other stuff you do, but not on a GOTTA DO IT EVERY WEEK AT THIS TIME level. We just don't have the time or desire to make that commitment! Heck, my Free Company is super small and we can barely field a map group of 8 people once a week right now. However, we are drama free and we kind of like it this way.

Anyways, I hope my sincere but somewhat tongue in cheek description can give you insight into the mind of the_casual_player_001. Please don't get too frustrated by us. =D

[TrystWildkey]

=D

Yes! You've said it very well, thank you!