Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
It's the usual thing of someone new or less experienced/confident in the role not really understanding why the old vets are fed up with things because they haven't experienced it yet.

Again, it's seemingly hard to convey how the role is actually pretty fun when everyone is new, under geared and generally bad.

It falls to bits at in end game casual content once people get some gear and have half a clue what they are doing. The experience gets objectively worse as everyone gets better.
Three problems with this:

1) That's subjective, not objective. To many people, the experience gets objectively better as everyone gets better. In old style games, the reward for being a better healer was being a less stressed healer. That's still true today.

2) Not everyone who disagrees with your position is a new/less experienced player.

3) Even if we ignore both of the above - that's no reason to run people off by hitting them with a wall of salt when they come to the forums. Often you guys suggest that no one thinks like I do, as no one is here regularly posting on the forums from the position I am other than me. But every time someone does, they're met with a wall of bitter vet salt that's pretty grating to most people (it is to me, but despite what I'm called by the regular jaded vets, I have thicker skin and so stick around anyway). To most people, that's REALLY toxic and alienating, so they just leave. Having a toxic forum environment not only gives you a slanted view of what the playerbase actually wants, it's just a bad environment to cultivate in general, and creates a self-fulfilling "fact" of "No one disagrees with the echo chamber, because they aren't here in the echo chamber disagreeing", when said echo chamber is actively repelling dissenting voices from stepping into (or staying in) it.