Bad/casual players with worse attitudes than the good "elitist" players

[BorisDaBlade]

I hate threads like these. As a casual, it makes me feel as if I should not even try to do anything close to end game content. Not even HM dungeons. I know my ability level. It's not up there with the elitists, but I am not carried either.

I dunno it just seems like the community has turned away from even wanting to help the newbies like me that have only been around for 6ish months. I'll just go slum it in the leveling roulette.

[Kat_Manx]

I hate threads like these. As a casual, it makes me feel as if I should not even try to do anything close to end game content. Not even HM dungeons. I know my ability level. It's not up there with the elitists, but I am not carried either.

I dunno it just seems like the community has turned away from even wanting to help the newbies like me that have only been around for 6ish months. I'll just go slum it in the leveling roulette.

I already made the slumming choice over a year ago. The less I talk to people in the game, the happier I feel playing the game. A little sad I can't be the best due to my lack of gear but, since I don't do anything important, I guess I really don't need the best gear.

[AriaEnia]

I hate threads like these. As a casual, it makes me feel as if I should not even try to do anything close to end game content. Not even HM dungeons. I know my ability level. It's not up there with the elitists, but I am not carried either.

I dunno it just seems like the community has turned away from even wanting to help the newbies like me that have only been around for 6ish months. I'll just go slum it in the leveling roulette.

Do you know they always call us casuals "filthy casuals"?

[Eothas]

I hate threads like these. As a casual, it makes me feel as if I should not even try to do anything close to end game content. Not even HM dungeons. I know my ability level. It's not up there with the elitists, but I am not carried either.

I dunno it just seems like the community has turned away from even wanting to help the newbies like me that have only been around for 6ish months. I'll just go slum it in the leveling roulette.

If you are not being an ass to other people, and are trying your best (doesn't matter if you aren't the best player), then this thread is not about you, theres no need to "hate". If anything this thread is about loud players that like to blame others, when in fact they are the problem and the reason content is not being cleared.

[Vandril]

I hate threads like these. As a casual, it makes me feel as if I should not even try to do anything close to end game content. Not even HM dungeons. I know my ability level. It's not up there with the elitists, but I am not carried either.

I dunno it just seems like the community has turned away from even wanting to help the newbies like me that have only been around for 6ish months. I'll just go slum it in the leveling roulette.

This thread has little to do with new players, though. Nor even players who are unskilled because they're new. Nor, in fact, even casuals. That's not what it's about. What the OP is complaining about is how some truly terrible players have truly elitist attitudes, and it's sickening. Their performance is less an issue than their attitudes.
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@OP - I've always found that classifying players in an MMO is never as simple as "casual" or "elite". There's more than just two classifications. Generally speaking, the casuals are casual, and will rarely be seen in content as they may only run it once or twice a week. The elite are the elite, and they will be too busy being awesome at what they do to rant and rave in chat - these people are rarely found in PUGs. Then there's the people sort of in the middle - skilled, but too casual to really take advantage of it.

Lastly, we have what is by far the most obnoxious group of people. In my experience, a good 90% of people you'll find in PUGs fit into this group. I call them elitists. I use this term very differently from most of the MMO community, as they are NOT the same as the skilled few who are the elite. The elitists are the douche bags who have egos far too inflated for their very limited skill. These are the people who point fingers and play the blame game on the very first wipe. These are the people who will stand in AoEs and then complain that the healer wasn't healing them. These are the people who will pull before the tanks because "you should pull larger groups". These are the people who will hold groups hostage in order to be kicked so that they can avoid the punishment of leaving a group early. These are those people.

These people are the elitists (and I reiterate: this is not the same group as the actual elite), and they are the poison of MMO communities. I'd take a terrible but pleasant player over these elitists any day.

[Eothas]

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This! I totally agree.

I'd take a terrible but pleasant player over these elitists any day.

Same, I would rather have a slightly lower skilled player (because the so called elitists are not good players in the first place), than these annoying people being carried and blaming others at the same time.