Quote Originally Posted by Ronduwil View Post
It won't be a surprise. That's why I said "well-designed." I cleared most of the Heroic raids in the WoW Cataclysm expansion. I'm very familiar with the "everyone needs to maximize their DPS and then some to beat the enrage timers" style of game design. I just think it's crappy. But I didn't think we were discussing high end content here. Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought we were talking about damage meters in the dungeon roulette, not end game raiding. If you're running end game raids with your guild, then of course criticism should be expected, embraced, and encouraged. If you're clearing bosses effortlessly with a bunch of sprouts in the dungeon roulette, however, you just come off like a jerk when you call someone out for under-performing.
My goal when I play is to put the same effort in as I do in high-end raids.

My goal when playing as a DPS is to be top DPS.
My goal when healing is to beat the tanks in damage, while letting no one die, and minimizing overheal.
My goal when tanking is to try and catch upto the DPS in damage, and let aggro never drop while pulling as much as possible.

The problem that is presented to me in low end content is that players that "just want to play for fun, bro, back off" have the mentality that gear levels don't matter, that learning a rotation doesn't matter, that learning, adapting, and playing well doesn't matter. It's a horrible attitude. It has gotten to the point where I have been verbally harrassed for +20 minutes in a MSQ roulette because I wanted to kick someone for being afk for 10 minutes. When I had said I wanted to kick them, I was met with "It's just MSQ, it doesn't matter - we could do this with our eyes closed."

If you have no intention of learning your class. Eventually you are going to tread into the territory of the final dungeons, and people who are looking to get in, and get out are going to kick you because you aren't learning. That's just how it is.

I'm not saying that if you aren't having perfect uptime, or dying in new dungeon that you will be kicked - but people in the game are VERY VERY lazy.

Even in the EX/Savage content I've been in a few horror stories because the people who want to be lazy end up never getting kicked, and think they can pull the same crap in the EX/Savage content.