Worst party experience thus far

[Mobbaren]

In my experience the most anti-social and frankly just rude behavior I have encountered is "veteran players" (for lack of a better word) doing exactly what youre doing.

When I ask questions in shouts or just decline fate invitations because I want to go through this game on my own for the most time, I get called an elitist wow-jerk that should go back to playing wow and never having a life.


YOURE the problem with this game. Stop thinking that playing this game is more intellectual than wow-cod-etc.
And stop calling people that dont agree with you "kids".

Find a FC that caters to your needs. And if you deem yourself to good to play pugs with filthy wow players, dont use the damn dutyfinder.
Its frustrating enough we have to live with all the extremely bad players. We can do without your elitist bullshit.

//Wow-player

[AldricBranchais]

Well that escalated quickly.

[icceti]

Well that escalated quickly.

^ preciously...

so far my worse experience were really bad tanks. well 2 bad tanks to be exact.

than one encounter on being told "the other arcanist dot all mobs before your cast ruin. it's a useless spell." 1st, my name is a drink and it's pretty easy to type... and 2nd, i prefer to target the tank's target, because of cc and aggro reasons. it's a habit i got into.

while i cursed the whole time, i still dot all mobs on one pull. it was just copper bell. and that arcanist was a bomb hugger too... such skills from someone making demands

[Jinko]

Yea we have had tanks rush in with these 2 instances not waiting for people to come out of cutscenes.

One of them was on Nero and 2 DPS were still outside the line and got locked out, we still managed to beat him somehow lol.

It's partly SE's fault though they should block off the line to enter the boss arena if people are still in CS's.

[Sixteen]

Today in Castrum was a totally different experience. To begin with, the main tank starts pulling as soon as people arrive in party. He did not wait for buffs or any communication. He then proceeds to pull 2-3 groups of NPCs at the time without marking anything. I ask if we could please mark targets and he then randomly assigns marks to the group. Immediately following this I am told by a DPS in the group to skip the cutscenes and watch them after the dungeon in my inn.

Don't see anything wrong with it, I always start out that instance exactly like that. The trash is very easy and doesn't need to be marked since a lot of the time aoe is more effective and you are dragging down the rest of the party by watching long cutscenes in a long instance. Most people I've been with in duty finder support my style of getting everything done as quickly as possible, grinding easy instances with random groups is hardly a social activity.

[JibOK]

I wouldn't force/ask anyone to skip the cut scenes but I just want to get it done and over with so I can see that the armor/weapon I wanted didn't drop so I can go do it again. lol

[Marianno]

I've experienced this on multiple occasions with dungeons like Wanderer's Palace, End Game Dungeons, Amdapor Keep etc. I even had an entire group get mad at me and say nasty thins in the chat log to me about why am I a newbie trying to run dungeons like this all because I wouldn't skip cutscenes. Also, most players who run lvl50 dungeons expects that everyone in the group already knows what to do when this is not the case. Making this assumption and not coordinating team efforts and effectively communicating is all I've seen in most dungeons that I have played through. Most of the groups that I have synced with from Duty-Finder were WoW players and they even said so in the beginning. Times like this I can't wait for the WoW patch to come out so that the game can clear up from this trash. Its disheartening to see how people want to trash other people for wanting to enjoy the experience of the game. I think you are correct to use the term children because that's what they act like.

[ntall1]

Lawling hard at the "Stop thinking this game is more intellectual than WoW CoD etc, etc." Umm.... WoW is for children now, and used to be just as hard if not harder than this game. CoD, while marked M for mature is geared towards a mass audience and requires almost no skill.

The reason most "Veterans" for lack of a better word are playing this game is due to the fact that it is more difficult than all the care bare, for the masses mmo crap that exists today.

Why are there no elitists in WoW anymore? Because the game does not require elite players to complete content. If you want to play a casual game than you are free to do it. I get sick of all the casual players thinking that every single game needs to fit their casual needs. What about us no lifers??????? We need a game too.

[mooney6023]

That's the problem with a cross server Duty Finder. There are no repercussions via reputation for any sort of behavior and no motivation to help new players. Why should they help you? They are most likely never going to see you again and certainly will not need you to fill a AK spot as they mindless farm tokens so they can "Finish" the game. They can't add you to their friend list or black list. They can't contact you at 3pm on Wednesday when they want to do a run and their usual static group is still at work (As if they actually had one). They have no need to help you and probably never played an MMO where the social and community building part of the game had any significance beyond build the largest guild of strangers possible in order to farm Guild Rank.

And hey if the aren't just jerks, then they most likely made it to 50 doing the absolute minimum amount of party content possible, and are now incompetent jerks.

Welcome to the modern MMO. If you didn't get to experience the nostalgic glory days 6-8 years ago when bad behavior had repercussions, then I'm sorry.