Quote Originally Posted by Delily View Post
You're overthinking this. Seriously. You join a raid, a trial, or a random dungeon, and what's the worst that happens? Some people will call you means names and vote kick. In 4 years of tanking, I can count on one hand how often that has happened to me. Even now, I'll commonly forget mechanics. I just tell people "my bad, I forgot" and we move on.
I agree 100%. If people want to try something they try it, just go in understanding that you have the chance to run into many different types of players some will understand, others will not. If as a new player you run into someone that you view as overly harsh take just chalk that up to a random chance encounter, now if you run into the same reaction many times then maybe it is time to take a look at how you are doing things.

I get it negative experiences tend to leave a lasting impression but generally I do honestly believe if people really thought long and hard and tallied up each negative experience against the positive / neutral ones unless as a player your behavior or play is not substantially below the standard deviation of the general population of players the positive and neutral experiences would be far greater. This community is far from as "toxic" as some make it out to be, if unless by "toxic" people mean apathetic.