What is up with the DF community?

[RedAntares]

I personally see a lot of what i saw in Guildwars 2, i feel a lot of the elitist toxic community has come from there, people say WoW was bad try GW2 for nasty people, worst community i've ever seen in a MMO and many jumped ship to here.

I'm sorry but GW2 community is awesome, I played GW2 a lot and I've never seen the elitism displayed here, the worst I've seen there is people QQ for nerfs on some classes but that's about it.

[CrystalRainbow]

I had my 1st bad healer.
I've been doing a few Duty finders with a static. War(my wife) Brd(myself) and a BLM friend from FFXI. Well Warrior had BLM don't have the best of luck together. Overpower is high hate but does dmg, and Slept mobs wake up when pulling hate again.
Well we had a WHM that after a few pulls started pulling hate but didn't die. Bitched out my wife as being a bad tank. And stopped healing and refused to leave wanted one of us to leave, because they didn't want the penalty for leaving.

[Hagito]

That's weird from all the duty finder parties I have had, even if they weren't good still had no rage. Guess it's the vibe you add to it? They probably are new to the instance, better explain, or they're having a bad day. Remember people play games to enjoy, not to be raging and frustrated.

I have had no problems so far and I DF a lot.

[NeoZehel]

I had my 1st bad healer.
I've been doing a few Duty finders with a static. War(my wife) Brd(myself) and a BLM friend from FFXI. Well Warrior had BLM don't have the best of luck together. Overpower is high hate but does dmg, and Slept mobs wake up when pulling hate again.
Well we had a WHM that after a few pulls started pulling hate but didn't die. Bitched out my wife as being a bad tank. And stopped healing and refused to leave wanted one of us to leave, because they didn't want the penalty for leaving.

I ran into one of these as well. I was running Ifrit Hard mode FC. Problem was we needed a healer (whether we had one already I don't recall) so we used DF. After our first wipe this healer decided to bash on our Main Tank for being stupid (to tone it down quite bit). It only escalated from there, with that healer becoming more and more hostile. "tank name here go kill yourself" "I'm done, this tank is shit." *5 seconds later* "JK I don't want penalty." Shortly after that he started purposely wiping the party by aggroing Ifrit before we were ready. I mean are you serious? If I wasn't cautious of being banned on forums I'd have their name posted everywhere. This was the worst DF experience I've had this whole time.

[RyuujinZERO]

I'm sorry but GW2 community is awesome, I played GW2 a lot and I've never seen the elitism displayed here, the worst I've seen there is people QQ for nerfs on some classes but that's about it.

Very much this.

GW2's community - at least on Tarnished Coast, is/was pretty much a beacon of how a community should be. Pretty much the ONLY place you found elitist attitudes was in the CoF farmers (And frankly there was no good reason for anyone but similarly minded farmers to join those runs), and in highest-tier fractal running (Which represented the cutting edge of GW2's progression gameplay. And like any progression content you had to be completely on top of your game, so yes by it's nature people were picky about who they took with them) - everywhere else, people tended to be friendly, helpful and open to newcomers.

[rabbitzero]

GW2's community - at least on Tarnished Coast, is/was pretty much a beacon of how a community should be..

I don't agree, but it at least wasn't as bad as i saw in the first Guild Wars. I felt it was about the same as WoW community wise. I do wonder how people would view the communities of games without dungeon finders if they added them. It's not the tools fault, it just lets people run into those they probably wouldn't before.

[RyuujinZERO]

I don't agree, but it at least wasn't as bad as i saw in the first Guild Wars. I felt it was about the same as WoW community wise. I do wonder how people would view the communities of games without dungeon finders if they added them. It's not the tools fault, it just lets people run into those they probably wouldn't before.

Well, GW2 has a DF now, but it's structured differently (basically the same as GW2LFG). In GW2 you are able to create an "LFG" that allows you to leave notes and therefore specify the kind of player you're after (ie. speed runners, whether the group plans to do multiple paths, etc).

FF14's DF causes friction because it lumps people together randomly - it throws speed-runners in with newbies amongst it's many sins. So in response to your post, I wonder how people in games with auto-assembling dungeon finders would view their communities if they could be more selective in their party's and goals, like in GW2

[Arkghyom]

DF= Tutorial Dungeons

[Munashe]

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The perfect post. This should be made into a news article and named "The Natural Evolution of the Internet A**hole"

[AllOutWar]

As much as people saying "WoW is a cesspool because of its random group finder!", I can say that I never had the mispleasure of seeing even a fraction of the QQing that I've seen in this game so far.

You're either trolling or you never played WOW before. WOW has to have the most toxic community ever. Even worse than the crap people talk while playing call of duty games.