Quote Originally Posted by Lacan View Post
I just don't get why you wouldn't join the discord if you want to do BA content. If you know people in the instance are trying to do a premade run, then why would you just barge into it if you don't even want to affiliate yourself with the discord? Why not wait for an instance without a discord group trying to do a run?

Anyone is welcome to join the discord. It isn't some exclusive club. But jumping into a portal (and forcing someone else out of the run, possibly a healer or a tank) and expecting people to accommodate you once inside is just silly. If you are completely clueless about what is going on that's one thing, but I find it hard to believe when these groups make it known in chat what is going on.
From what I've heard from my friends and discord groups those who tend to wander into the portals are a mixed bunch. I also don't understand why someone who is in the know-how wouldn't join a discord group; at least those who don't fall into a specific group of people who have reasons not to join the discord - like hostile users from them/anxieties etc.

For the most part, what gets me about this is just the new people who wanted to step in and see it and have some fun. It certainly doesn't help when someone takes the portal without being in a premade and then they're just 'blacklisted' so they can't join that particular discord because of that incident. I really hope none of the BA groups is just blocking them from discords right off the get-go, and the rule is; not to take a portal if another group has already staked claim to that instance; which makes more sense than 'you snipe, you banned', which was overly harsh.

So yes, I totally understand it when people cock a brow when someone who knows that the discord communication is needed but doesn't take it anyway; but that's how it goes in MMOs. I am however firmly against the harassment of them since you never know, could just be a cute little smol who was simply curious. I've done it before myself in another game - quite by accident. I was curious one time in ESO and touched a portal that spawned a crap ton of mobs meant for group parties! Curiosity happens! People should know by now that some folks aren't glued to the computer and researching this and are just going in blind. It's a game, after all, some folks treat is just like that.