Quote Originally Posted by Denmo View Post
Are players gimp if they choose not to join endgame linkshells? Am I to be labeled with the worst if I'm not part of some elite group?

Not all players you pick up in PUGs are bad players, so let's dispel that myth please.
Its not that they are bad players, its just that they are almost always a bad team. In a linkshell teamwork is basically required, but in a pug individuals have a hard time working as a team because they cannot acknowledge a leader. Everyone is smarter than everyone, and everyone knows how to play everyone's job better than everyone else, so any possible adjustments an ls could easily make are simply arguments and flame wars for pugs. This is why ppl say pugs are generally terrible. There is no cohesion precisely because no one wants to be told what to do by someone else. When you are a part of a linkshell, you all have that guy who will give orders and you accept that. Its part of running with a linkshell, a hierarchy. There is no hierarchy in pugs, so its just a flame-war filled with "ima do it my way." Too much hubris leads to no teamwork, that is a pug's most common affliction.

That being said ive had some great pugs, but I have ppl in my ls who swear up, down, and sideways they will never touch a pug ever again.