Asking you to join a Discord is asking you to exchange communications.
The BA description in the patch notes and in game explicitly says that you will be required to communicate with your fellow teammates in order to clear and earn the rewards for clearing—
It just so happens that NA/EU’s preferred method of communication happens to be Discord, probably because if its ease of access, and the variety of methods they can use to schedule runs (e.g., scheduling and queue bots).Originally Posted by 4.55 Patch Notes; Re: Baldesion Arsenal Rewards
You don’t have to speak if you are not leading a run—in fact, the NA one prefers that comms remain clear for important callouts, and run leaders frequently ask for people to mute themselves during boss fights so that idle chatter does not drown out the callouts.
Discord is not difficult to use: you can install it on your computer, your phone, your tablet, etc.; whatever device you may have can use it, even if you are a Console player and not a PC player (I used to use it on my laptop back before I got a gaming desktop and played on the PS4).
A person not joining the Discord has shown that they are not cooperative. I find it highly unlikely that people in this day in age have zero ways to use Discord—rather, they choose not to. But that choice directly hinders the way NA/EU want to communicate in this content, thereby making it impossible for them to coordinate and cooperate. At the very least, it makes it unnecessarily cumbersome—on-the-fly callouts in chat are not an easy feat when you’re trying to do the mechanics yourself.
Okay, so then why say that you’ve tried it when you actually haven’t?
You’re basing your opinion off of a biased game forum that only reflects the opinions of a small amount of its playerbase—a substantial amount of players don’t even post here, yet you would base your opinion off of the minority?
You aren’t actually trying the content itself (doing the Support FATE does not count, as he’s basically just an NM), yet you insist on forming opinions about it and the people who frequently participate in it. Mind you, a lot of players on Aether do not talk in /shout; they use /yell while inside the dungeon so as to not clog up the outside chat for NM call outs. It may be similar on your DC as well, so you may not even be seeing what the majority of people in there think. Again, you’re basing it off of a few people.
Basing your opinion off of the opinions of others with zero effort to actually try the content and form your own independent opinion gives you little merit.