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[Misstique]

I remember a run I had with some friends, we had a lot of new people in the Alliance but just as many people who had been in before and acted like they knew what to do when the first boss started. (Keep in mind I don't think anyone except maybe one person in my party actively stated they were new....)

Mateus goes about as well as expected - the people who weren't new still weren't doing mechanics properly because muh deeps, the new people had little to no idea what was going on, we all wiped. I think an Ice Slave was what kept killing half the raid, but I can't remember at this point. Anyway, while we're all running back to Mateus after the wipe, I just make a joking quip in Alliance once all the mud-slinging started (ofc) going "Remember kids, mechanics are important!" I directed this at the people who WEREN'T new since goodness knows they weren't paying attention to half the mechanics, plus no one was really aware how many new people we did have... since literally no one but like 1-2 people said anything.

Queue impatient angry manchild newbie who goes, "well some of us don't f***ing know mechanics, but thanks for the condescension. How about you f***ing explain instead?" To which I just responded, "So angry." and left it at that. I was doing the raid for the first time on a healer so I had more important things to worry about than dealing with that. Someone else explained her mechanics, we proceeded, half the raid still wiped since either they weren't doing them or didn't understand them - but we managed to get past her. From then on someone explained all the boss mechanics as best they could. Ofc the party with the newbies did the worst but that's to be expected.

This guy though - he would literally spend the entire raid doing nothing but passive aggressive insults to me regardless of what was going on. People failed a mechanic and someone had to reiterate what to do? "Remember guys, mechanics are important~~~!" I ended up dying because someone ran pools into my face or couldn't sprint from Hashbrown's fire fast enough? "Remember, mechanics are important!" Like. I thought it was stupid at first (still was anyway tbh), but by the third boss I was actually upset. I hadn't spoken a single word after Mateus' wipe save for adding on to some mechanic explanations where needed, and I didn't acknowledge that manchild throwing a tantrum at all. But for whatever reason he took great personal offense to my joking quip at the start and made it his mission to make fun of me the entire run when we weren't even on the same team. Like what even, man? No wonder half your group is dying, with you talking more than healing. The worst of it came with Thadalfus ofc, since regardless of what class I'm on that boss still gives me trouble with some of his mechanics - and admittedly I was messing up worse because I had some anxiety building up from this dude's constant mudslinging.

And ofc before they left, they had to get one last parrot out of "Mechanics are important!" I was in such a terrible mood after that run. Some people literally take the crown for petty and unnecessary salt.

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that. It seems like that raid brings out some of the worst people. I ran it yesterday and a mnk was pretty much holding up the whole raid due to computer issues or what not and people were getting upset since they couldnt start. The monk refused to leave and wanted a kick and the guy that came with the monk ended up arguing with the whole raid, telling people to "eat s**t and die" and other profanities. Of course, I left at hashmal even though I wasn't even a part of the argument since those types of people can totally ruin your experience. So when you mentioned how that guy was actively harassing you like that, I can imagine how upset you'd be. I mean if that was me, I'd pretty much copy the whole conversation and report him for harassment.

Anyway, I checked the guy's name on lodestone and lo and behold, his fc's name is " toxic ******* " lol, must be a great bunch of human beings.

One thing I don't understand....why are people typing during raids instead of dodging or following mechanics, (I've see this pretty often). When I'm doing literally any ex trial or raid, i don't read or even look at the chat log, I'm too busy healing or rezzing people.