"Everyone's so open and friendly" is a lie

[Krotoan]

1) Some of the people on these forums (not naming any names, obviously) and 2)

I would like to comment that while I have encountered some of the "baddies" people describe in posts, I have literally never encountered people as contrary minded as I have on the forums , in game.

[Fyrebrand]

I would like to comment that while I have encountered some of the "baddies" people describe in posts, I have literally never encountered people as contrary minded as I have on the forums , in game.

True, I would agree with that. My in-game experience and my forum experience is like night and day.

[Rinhi]

I would like to comment that while I have encountered some of the "baddies" people describe in posts, I have literally never encountered people as contrary minded as I have on the forums , in game.

I've ended up in a duty twice with a notoriously obtuse poster that fails to understand the basics of math or seasons and they were nice, helpful and 'pogging off' performance wise, so to speak
I just think some people give the forum too much weight, like many of the people who criticize SE or aspects of the game, or the players and/or community, are usually completely "normal" in game, tbh
like, I probably come across as some kind of elitist hardcore raider who expects only the best of players and anything below 100% is seen as slacking, meanwhile I'm a casual af player that wiped a party like 3-4 times on dohn mheg because I pulled too much and wasn't watching my CDs properly (though to my defense the healer was using benefic and not 2 all throughout the first wipe, the rest were all on me)

[Nyarlha]

I've ended up in a duty twice with a notoriously obtuse poster that fails to understand the basics of math or seasons and they were nice, helpful and 'pogging off' performance wise, so to speak
I just think some people give the forum too much weight, like many of the people who criticize SE or aspects of the game, or the players and/or community, are usually completely "normal" in game, tbh

People just fall too easily for forums personas/trolling. A huge part of this forum is so contrarian that it just motivates those people to post huge baits to get a rise out of them. They can't resist but go full "Ackshually...!" when they read something they disagree with.

[Rinhi]

People just fall too easily for forums personas/trolling. A huge part of this forum is so contrarian that it just motivates those people to post huge baits to get a rise out of them. They can't resist but go full "Ackshually...!" when they read something they disagree with.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that everyone who's not fitting in with the majority is trolling or using a persona, I think most people are just speaking their mind instead of keeping quiet around here, even if it's an unpopular opinion - though the forum certainly does have quite a few trolls/gimmicks, i.e. titanmen with his lgbt stuff the last few months or the aforementioned player trolling regarding prime numbers or when fall begins and whatnot, though those threads are super obvious in the first place (and still get 2000 pages because ???)

[Larirawiel]

I've ended up in a duty twice with a notoriously obtuse poster that fails to understand the basics of math or seasons and they were nice, helpful and 'pogging off' performance wise, so to speak
I just think some people give the forum too much weight, like many of the people who criticize SE or aspects of the game, or the players and/or community, are usually completely "normal" in game, tbh

True. It is the reason why i do not post in the german part of the forums anymore. I don't like the passive hostility there. I made also the mistake and told them that i played this other mmo in the past.

Cheers

[Adeacia]

My very first experience with other players was when I ran Sastasha for the first time. I was a GLA and didn't know what I was doing. The party took it slow, and worked with me. Told me how I should manage myself as a tank, how I should gain aggro and such. I was really happy for their help.

It's been years since then, and the only major toxic players I've seen since then has been on these very forums, not in the game itself. Sure I have encountered a few negative players here and there ingame, but that's pretty rare in my experience. Even when a wipe happens and it's my fault, we just try again without issue. Sometimes I do joke about it to try to diffuse any potential anger with things like "I blame the healer" or "Who let this trash healer in this party?" when on both occasions, said healer is me. Usually gets a laugh out of them.