Quote Originally Posted by Tiggy View Post
While raiding or statics are one thing but if you think people telling you to build a party is the worst advice anyone can give then please, stop playing this game. Building a party to get something done is the de facto standard in MMOs. If this is so difficult for you then you are very clearly in the wrong genre.
I think you intentionally missed most of the point here just to make your argument stick. The point is that the few people still interested in running this content as a static are the same people generally ALREADY in static parties.

New parties are slow to get off the ground because, to be frank, failure is frustrating and repeated failure is just maddening. It's easy to be on the inside looking out and telling people what they should be doing, but not so easy to be on the outside looking in and trying to do it. That's easily my biggest gripe with some of the attitudes displayed in this thread. Instead of looking at things objectively people are making grand assumptions that everyone who can't do this hasn't even made an effort to try.

There's also this huge stigma that if a player hasn't cleared a certain coil, regardless of their reasons, they're somehow a "worse" player than those who have. It makes getting into those groups far more difficult because they'll often refuse to take anyone on-board who doesn't have multiple clears under their belt. Heck, several groups ALREADY ask players to 'post their drops' before getting even a second-glance. So, even if you DID beat it but your gear didn't drop, oops.. too bad.

To be honest, if the 'endgame' crowd are the kind who look down their noses to everyone else then it's not the sort of clique I'd like to be associated with. I know there's some genuinely good groups out there which are far more tolerant, but the cacophony of trouble makers drowns them out, sadly.