Quote Originally Posted by ShadowHunterrX View Post
Mindset here : I wanna be the very best and take this game very very very serious. OMG, this run is 5 min longer ! What a trash party, blacklist.

Mindset most people: Finally home from work and time to play my favorite game with my friends. Hmm 5 min slower then last time.... o well we did great.
This is a meme casual and/or bad players perceive raiders to have. If this were in anyway accurate, why do you see the likes of Xeno, Bokchoy, Momo Sama, MrHappy and other top tier players all in PF for literally no reason except they're bored and like doing the content? You think Xeno is getting good kill times in a random pick-up? Speaking of myself, I've spent over an hour with a group far below my own skill level. Why? They were putting forth an effort. That's what most raiders are asking for: effort and consistency. None of us care if the run takes a little longer in a PF, provided people are at least trying. What does irk people is when someone repeatedly dies to the same mechanics or clearly has little idea how their job plays at a high level.

Regardless, your own example defeats your argument. "play my favourite game with my friends." You can be an Ice Mage for all I care when playing with your friends. Go nuts and have fun. When you're queuing with random people, especially in higher end game. How about showing a little courtesy and not wasting their time? Five minutes is no big deal; few raiders will care. They'll be a bit less forgiving if you're contributing less than half the DPS of everyone else despite having the same ilvl.