Let Me Rephrase That…

When the Dungeon Finder facility was introduced it made finding groups for instances extremely easy. Instead of going through the hassle of “LF 2 DPS + Tank for heroics” etc all you do now is open up the Dungeon Finder window and hit “Find Group”. That’s it. Before too long you have four other people and are inside the instance.

Over the various patches and expansions WoW has been getting progressively easier (for the most part). There’s no CC (crowd control) needed these days, no real thought or skill required in heroics. It’s just pull, kill, pull, kill. And with the give-away Tier 9 gear from heroics gearing up with very nice gear is a doddle – when Lich King heroics came out you could only really get normal epics and had to raid to get Tier 7 (although you could buy two tokens for T7 gear with heroic badges), now we’re two tiers higher from the same instances.

With all this easily accesible gear it seems that nowadays people are awfully impatient and very elitist and rude. There are exceptions and I’ve met some great folk in the dungeon finder but sometimes you get some complete idiots. Idiots who think that because they have good gear, everyone should be as good as them.

In a heroic I did tonight (5-man) we had seven people join and leave because the tank was a new 80. He knew what he was doing and his gear was fine, but because he wasn’t as well geared as everyone else he was called various names and people just left, leaving him hanging.

It really frustrates me how these people in tbeir charity gear forget just what gearing up is like, especially for new 80s. Yes, gearing up is easy but at the start it’s pretty hard; you have low gear so you can’t get groups, yet you need groups to get gear.

The most amazing (not in the good sense) thing I’d heard in a long time came from my friend Blue yesterday. He was doing a heroic on his Horde Hunter and a very nice trinket could have dropped from the boss he was about to do. The tank then told the group to kick Blue because he wanted the trinket. He then refused to go on unless Blue was kicked out of the group. All because he didn’t want competition on the loot. Suffice to say, the group stuck up for Blue and kicked the tank. Quite right.

So while you may get idiots, low geared people, new people still learning or great people in the Dungeon Finder, show a little patience and don’t be rude.

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