Quote Originally Posted by TroySoFab View Post
Grouped content is helping you with your anxiety, and that's great! I wish you the best of luck in fighting it and who knows, maybe I'll bump into you in DF one day
Correction: *sometimes* grouped content helps. Other times it really doesn't and leaves me despairing for humanity's future. I welcome trusts so that I can continue to place blind faith that somehow we're not all screwed. Let me have my dream. I generally object to having to run with random people but I try to get over it, but I have explained this before. Randoms are the not fun element. It should all be fun really. I'm not someone who is sociable with people I am unfamiliar with, I don't enjoy lots of people in any great way, and I do not currently receive worthwhile social interactions with randoms in dungeons - apart from being polite, hi, goodbye, tactics where necessary. Point of fact, I've given up on dungeons right now - I'll run if my daughter asks to, and that's about it. Aside from a few weeks back when I literally had to ask the tank to focus on actually tanking (so shut up spamming chat bar with your asinine observations and at least try to hold some aggro), I have not come across people using dungeons as a place to meet others and chat about the weather, so what does it really matter if some dungeons we do not run with real people should we choose not to? It does not matter. It does not take away social aspects for those who need them (I don't need them in huge amounts nor do I want them. My circle is deliberately small and consists of people who hold great meaning to me).

So no, I'm not really sure you'd want to meet me in DF - I'm sorry! I really do suck. If that somehow happened, yes, I would be polite and but would likely ignore most attempts at conversation. Unless, due to some much cutscene time, it was The Praetorium. Despite what I've said above, sometimes there have been great moments of wit there (bar the one guy who had not the wit, yet prattled incessantly... a little piece of my soul died that day and the rest went into full rebellion). But those times are counted on one hand, and I've run that place more than I'd like to admit to.

And even after all that, I am seriously considering finding people as a static group for even just small dungeons (all content) so randomness can be alleviated, though the leap to do that is currently hard, I would like to think for obvious reasons. I could be considering for some years. Can't do an FC as mine is a family-only one. If I was able to find people of a similar outlook, then I'd be much more open to consistently running content with others as an LS static or some such - though they'd have to be aware of the fact that I just won't be able to do it all the time myself because I need so much "me" time to process stuff.

Anyway. No one is suggesting removing group content away from the game. Where have you read this?