Feast Harassment is STILL a problem in 2019.

[DamianFatale]

I'll be honest, I don't know how to tank in the feast. I was running practice mode to try and see if I could do it, and I wasn't performing well. I lost nearly every match, and weighed down the team.

But that gives you no excuse to message me after the content in a rude manner. I was cussed out and called horrible things just because I didn't perform in the way they wanted. I get that they were grinding matches and probably felt frustrated with losses, but I am too. I want to be good at my role, and be a supportive member of the team.

Please don't message me in PMs rudely. I'm open to advice, but being a stink just because you got gold or diamond, and think ing you have authority over everyone is pretty sad. I honestly felt like quitting Paladin and just not doing PVP as the job ever because of the harassment.

What I want people to get out of this is that PVP harassment is still a problem. Muting the feast chat did help remove it, but it's still very much a problem. I hope it improves but I doubt it. PVP is toxic in every game. Even simple practice modes that are supposed to be new PVP player friendly.

[Gallus]

Welcome to the reason why most sane people stay away from the stinky sewers the online competitive environments have turned into.

You are wasting your time asking people to be polite. The next time you lose they'll keep jumping on your throat like a bunch of demented wild animals.

The only reason you aren't flamed more is because SE removed the chat in a failed attempt to dissuade these people from being rubbish sprinklers. But it can't be helped. They'll go out their way to afk, message you after the game or spam your character with ignore markers.

Never mind the mode being in dire need of new players because there are no more than a hundred of people active at this point. People would rather kill this mode than behave like civilized human beings.

[snipski]

Feast always was Toxic as fuck, that alone scares away alot of ppl from the mode.
It's the same deal with PVE though when you enter a savage pug or something some ppl telling you do go fuck yourself if you fucked up a mechanic or something.

Also there is no Feast Season going on right now so the only ppl you will see in that mode is ppl who are going for the Garo Mounts before they are wiped out.

[Araxes]

I think you are kinda overreacting to this. There are SOME black Sheep and Trolls in the rated pvp mode. Mostly those who made top 100 after Stormblood easy-grind-mode was introduced and now think they are some kind of Gods having the authority to behave as they please. Most people in pvp are still normal behaving players with some being frustrated over the fact that they CANT tell a new Tank in the Feast that he should take some Medals. But yeah, if there are people yelling/flaming after matches you can simply BL them cause you wont get any useful advice from them.

[Crit]

Rule of thumb is to always be patient and understanding with new players, can unload toxic nukes on veterans that still play horribly


If you harass new players there is clearly something you're trying to compensate for to make yourself feel better about yourself (:

[KageTokage]

Just report/BL people if they're going to be that toxic.

I personally won't fault someone for under-performing unless it's obvious they're throwing the match and not even trying. I've had multiple occasions where our healer just gave up and started hopping around and doing nothing just because we had two deaths early on, which is foolish because the Feast much more so then other PvP modes is designed in a way where you can make a potentially huge comeback as long as you're not getting totally steamrolled..

[kensatsu]

I don't think players have to stay away from feast, because somes players is just behaviors, this not belong to the feast, you can have this on every content on the game. Also believe me some of the toxic players is often new players as well, i don't say veterans is never toxic, but i have see many new players toxicity as well.

I often give few tips to new players if they accept my friend request.
if you need advices here is some :
1) take medals when you get a kill, off course
2) take rempart and a skill you like as additional
3) get back to your healer if you get damages, pop rempart, don't overextend on enemy base and be aggresive endlessly, don't Line of sight your healer so don't follow enemy behind a wall breaking the line of sight of your healer
4) when you see players do coundown on target, just stun at 3, burst at 0 with your mate
its basics but it may help you to beggin with

[awesomega]

Like how do you even respond to this? What are you proposing, banning dm's after playing a match? Your playing in a practice unranked game and a guy is cursing you after the match? The guy is just an outlier jerk, just report him for harassment and Blacklist. OR... you could post your story in every outlet with a title saying PVP community, so Toxic! All I wanted to do is to play, all I received, flames! Btw another suggestion, your statement saying how muting chat in feast help curbed harassment suggests you've been at this quite a bit of time, which I would remove if you want to keep that Im a newbie getting harassed for learning the ropes type vibe post. Anyway great post. spread the word!

[Dirwen]

I want that gold garo mount but suck at PvP so avoided feast after getting raped on healer,range dps, and melee dps jobs in there. It is why I prefer 72 frontline matches as you can do kills and objectives as a big group and no real pressure getting ganked with no back up.

Losing can be frustrating and I hate how SE forces you into PvP by adding so many rewards in it. Not being able to communicate in feast really hurts a lot too.

[Shurrikhan]

Isn't this going to be the case with any relatively detached/esoteric area of gameplay that's broadly played only during special win reward periods, regardless of which MMO you're in?