The number of bad players are rising!

[Artemiz]

I don't think players are getting worse, I think it's more like expectations are getting too high. It's almost like some people expect a well oiled dungeon stomping machine everytime they use DF, in some groups you can feel the tension start building after just one wipe. I was doing the main story roulette the other day on my SCH and as the tank left he decided to inform everyone that it was the worst group he'd ever played with. That kinda surprised me as not one person was KO'd at any point, the off tank picked up all the adds, everyone knew the mechanics and the dungeon ended in a reasonable time. The run was a little bit sloppy in places but that was about it, no biggie and I just assumed everyone had run it a million times and wheren't really pushing it to the max, so to speak. I guess you just can't please some people.

[Garlyle]

I don't think players are getting worse, I think it's more like expectations are getting too high. (snip)

This. I do everything for the first time with my Free Company whenever I can (and thankfully they're always up for stuff!) because even if it's content that was just introduced in this patch, it's automatically expected you're fully familiar with all the mechanics and will play perfectly (the latter of which is always bull because human error is a very real thing). It's really freaking stupid.