We Need to Start Expecting Mid-Level Sprouts to Play Better

[Zaniel]

The OP isn't talking about expecting every player to be a sweaty savage progger, I think it's reasonable to expect basic ability to breath and press buttons. I do Hunts every night and we still lose a dozen people to Eye Doom attacks EVERY night (and these are people I see at the Hunt every night, they literally die to the same mechanic every single night of the week), I don't think it's unreasonable to have learned what a stack marker is by L90. There's a quite small but nonetheless existing minority of people who have absolutely zero, nil, nada ability to function in the game. While we don't rage at them it IS on them to sort themselves out, if they want to participate in the MMO side of things with other people. Also, we're not talking about that guy with slow reflexes because of a medical issue or whatever, we're not talking about someone in Sastasha for their first time (or even HW dungeons) we're talking about the jackass in his post.

If I come across some guy playing a Gunbreaker in a L60 roulette and he says "first time playing tank" I am totally fine with him being a mess.

All the people raising objections are just being contrarian, the OP is talking about expectations that are WAY WAY below even basic competence, that isn't being rude or unreasonable (assuming you aren't being actually rude yourself back).

I do agree that the number of these sorts of players you encounter isn't really that high in any way, but it doesn't alter the fact that it does affect other people and then we're onto the other argument where it's "oh you shouldn't get annoyed". We expect people to be polite in chat because you don't know how you're going to affect someone, this isn't really any different.