Quote Originally Posted by NessaWyvern View Post
I am kinda depressed that my only orange (I think) is on ingles, of all things, lol
Worth reminding people, because it's easy to lose sight of in a thread discussing how easy everything is and how lots of people don't try, that even a blue log in casual content is more than fine and anything higher is good. It's much easier than Savage, but you still need to avoid mechanics and know your rotation properly to do well. If you do that, great job. And orange is better than the large majority of players at your content level.
So you can give yourself a pat on the back if you do well, even on casual and if you die on Normal mode or struggle starting off, that's fine as long as you keep trying. We aren't machines, we all slip up and we all have to start somewhere. Take good runs as motivation to keep improving.

I'd be very happy with a full group of low-green players in an EX trial, if they were friendly, trying their best, communicating and learning mechanics. I'd consider them all decent and could see them going on to do far better in the future.
The issue is with players who don't want to try. Who can't even be bothered getting the 480 gear before they jump into endgame groups when it's practically handed to them. Who refuse to take advice on rotations. Who fail SSS once and decide it's stupid and overtuned and ignore it. Who don't meld or use food. Who refuse to dps on a healer because healers heal, and so on. Then content is continually made easier and easier to get that type of player through and they get lazier and lazier in response, creating a never ending cycle of increasing simplicity. Those are the bad players.