Quote Originally Posted by blinushka View Post
Forgot I had even made this post but alas - any feedback and thoughts are appreciated.
Some agree, some disagree and some do not see this happening - varied experiences.

I mostly do 90ies due to limited time and/or other things to do, but this extends to EW raids too, mind you this is all endgame stuff.
One can only go so far to dealing with people who do not know what a basic stack marker or an AOE marker is, and that alone can be frustrating, cause dissatisfaction and just make you miserable rest of the duty.
I come on to play and have fun, and I do value my time of the free limited hours I have.

By no means am I good in any way, I only started a year or more ago so what do I know and we all make mistakes regardless of knowledge or situation - but seeing a sprout next to their name, rare cases can be excluded for those who do not have enough playtime hours to have it removed and have progressed in quick pace, and a singular class via Search Info at 90 in the latest dungeon(s) & raid(s) is a dead giveaway and 5+ minutes into the first boss you can tell they don't know what to do.

I have no problems with new players who are genuinely new to the dungeon or new mechanics - these things are expected, what is not expected is failing to understand the most basic stack, AOE and etc markers.

There is a big difference between a "new" player and a booker - one has been learning and is learning duration of the game, while the other decided to book their way to 80+ and attempt, without any prior experience, doing latest dungeons and endgame raids while being utterly clueless. You could argue that both are new regardless, yes, but I value and appreciate one more over the other because one has done their part of learning the game mechanics overtime.

That being said, everyone will have different experiences - depending on the region, time of day, type of duty and different levels of skills and knowledge.

tl;dr: booking is bad, better tutorials/guides needed and requirements beforehand buying books needed (don't care if people skip MSQ, it's more of a "please learn basic stuff before going into latest dungeons" rant)
Not gonna argue with your perspective, I just want to raise a thought I had.

Does this irritation also happen during patch/expansion launches when people (who aren't new) stumble on new dungeon mechanics, alliance raid mechanics, savage mechanics, etc.?

I'm going to assume you weren't here when Sage and Reaper launched (correct me if I'm wrong) but what about when people pick up Viper & Pictomancer in 7.0 and die to mechanics while trying to learn their skills/rotation?

Is it strictly with book people or is it just people not performing to a standard you have set because of your limited time to play the game?