Quote Originally Posted by Mawlzy View Post
I am puzzled by this.
No surprise here.

Quote Originally Posted by Mawlzy View Post
SE consistently produces 14 content that the majority of the players dislike and do not engage with. Then the shouty minority who do like such content turn up here to tell the majority they are playing the wrong game.
As I said, no surprise here. First, high-end combat duties aren't done by some fringe minority. Second, the existence of difficult combat encounters isn't some surprise for a combat action MMORPG, it's one of the staple features of this kind of genre. When joining a tennis club, expect there to be lots of tennis, some will even do it professionally. What Ardeth is doing is joining a tennis club, and then being distressed that members of this club are, in fact, playing tennis.

Quote Originally Posted by Mawlzy View Post
This would come as an even greater shock to the bulk of casuals who are far too sensible to come here to be insulted, and who find plenty of ways to enjoy the game (and the genre) that have nothing to do with progging tramlined fights.
YOU, thankfully, don't speak for the "casuals". And neither is Ardeth representative of "the casuals". Ardeth, as an individual, has a deeply unhealthy relationship with this game. Their expectations for every single piece of content is completely out of whack. As is the impression they have from the supposed "toxicity" in pf. Playing this game isn't mandatory in any way. Queuing for any activity within the game is also not mandatory in any way. If a player doesn't have an intrinsic interest in actually doing the activity they queue for, they shouldn't. If someone feels "forced" to, that's video game addiction speaking. Some people only play tennis casually, and that is okay. That doesn't mean that everyone else also needs to lower their standards, or get dragged down morally and verbally by people who aren't even interested in tennis.