The general player base needs to improve

[F_Maximillian]

I honestly don't remember the last time I've wiped in "casual content". I'm sure it has happened but I only remember vaguely complaining to friends about it after the fact not the incidents themselves. Not every run has been so horrible that it couldn't be completed and I don't think I've seen enrage on anything outside of an ex primal or savage if they do exist.

However, the amount of times I was the top damage in the group regardless of my role (tank healer or dps) or the last one alive that had to finish a boss myself in level 70 content is abnormally high. I'm not some god tier player in fact I'm probably average or less. However, it has definitely lessened the enjoyment for me when I feel like I'm dragging people kicking and screaming through content they voluntarily chose to enter when they could have simply finished whatever it is they were watching/doing before queueing up for the dungeon.

They could have taken the time to read their tooltips and better study their jobs, applied common sense on not standing around doing nothing or spamming heals on a full hp tank, done some quick math to see that aoe is better on large pulls than single target with nothing but their tooltips and a calculator, or saw that defensive cooldowns are not "oh shit buttons" for when things go bad but preventative measures to keep them from going bad.

However, I say nothing to these people. I say hello at the beginning of the dungeon and take care at the end because it seems pointless to say more than that. I did as others do and simply grin and bear it since I didn't want to sit around waiting for a fixed group for every bit of content I do because they aren't up to par. In the beginning I did try offering help and when the mentor system came out I was happy that maybe this would be the lead-in to people being more open to accepting advice (I truly enjoy helping people learn on mmos, it has always been one of my favorite things to do). However, we all know how that turned out and I took my crown off not long after and haven't put it back on since. I also haven't bothered offering advice since nobody seems to want it, as another poster in a different thread said "how dare I be so concieted to assume other people want my "opinion in a dungeon".

Now, I've taken to accepting and putting into practice other advice. I don't do roulettes anymore nor do I bother capping weekly tomes or doing normal mode omega for the weekly drops. I stick to playing only with people I know and trust to actually play the game when they're in a group with me. I login for savage and if I still feel like playing try to help some pug groups clear, usually with no success. I dread everything I do feeling like a slog because people would rather not put in the bare minimum effort to respect my time and the time of the others in their group. I don't expect top tier play but it is draining to see people obviously expecting someone else to pick up their slack and putting no effort in, especially when you get matched with multiple people who all had the same idea.

I've realized that this will never change and the game will simply keep changing to cater to those types of people until even they find it too easy and get bored/quit. For now I simply enjoy what I can with those I know but it's saddening because meeting new people and teaching are some of the things that got me hooked on mmos so long ago. It's a shame that people would rather promote that people exist within their closed circles and disregard those around them but times change and so the genre will change with it.