Quote Originally Posted by Maikal View Post
It isn't just the end-game, either. The community as a whole has become more toxic. in my recollection, pre-2.0 had nowhere near the misery or toxicity that seems to be the current standard. Im not sure whether to point at the playerbase or the game design. More likely, it's something else entirely.
Actually the 1.0 community started getting extremely toxic around the time that people started doing optimal speed runs on Dzemael Stronghold for that one bonus chest. Continued to cutters cry with the inclusion of darklight gear, and has only progressively gotten worse and worse.

It really helps to find a group of friends to run content with. I personally find it a bit disgusting that people are shunned from trying new content without first seeing X number of tutorial videos so that they know what they need to do. Part of the fun used to be from learning new content, but those days are mostly gone now