I notice there is a significant amount of people who will join clear/farm parties for difficult content such as T9 who have absolutely no idea what they are doing. They then accuse you of being elitist / rude to them when you are like, "Why are you in a clear/farm party if you don't know what you're doing?"
I know people need to learn but when I learn content I create practice parties or join any existing practice parties and that is really what I did. I chugged away at those groups judgement free until I felt really comfortable and shot for my clear afterwards.
There is content in this game that you really can't just 'join' and 'get it' right away and perform well. Some people can learn fast while others need a lot of tries but until you feel comfortable that you can pull your own weight, why are you joining farms/clears?
I usually join practice parties for stuff I'm good at in order to help people out. I really love helping people learn things it's one of my passions to be a community player but you have to understand that I also need a break from wiping so when I want to just go win with a group of people who also know how to win in order to relieve stress or just get some loot from a boss that I dedicated a lot of time to learning, I can't because I must continue to be held back by people who have not the faintest idea what they are doing.
It's not fair to me or other people who know the content. We did our time wiping, let us band together and win instead. If something says clear/farm and you are not 100% confident in your abilities that you can clear it, don't join out of respect. I'm not talking about simple human errors that people make. I hate people who ragequit out cuz someone made an honest mistake. But when I make a mistake I own up to it right away to reassure the party it won't happen again and I understand what I did wrong. If I'm having an off day I will leave out of respect for them.
I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on this but I feel that this is an epidemic that is plaguing my server.
Some replies I'm not interested in hearing that I know people will make, "This is why I run things with people I know." or "This is why I have my static." Yeah I get it. I still don't know enough people who are good players AND have good attitudes that I can tolerate being around to run stuff together. Good for you that you have connections to get stuff done. It doesn't change the reason for my post and is entirely irrelevant as it does not address the concerns stated here and acts as a means to excuse this behavior.