It’s crazy how many people just think “gdkp bad”. Just join a guild if that’s how you feel.
It’s not an preconceived notion, that was experience. The first paragraph was my first interaction while looking for a raid after hitting 80 and running H+ for a week. Combined with my interactions with previous guildmates I don’t need to imagine what gdkp runs are like. I don’t need to try crack and get addicted before I decide that crack is bad for people. I will be playing with my friends in a guild by the way.
GDKP wouldn’t be all that bad if it were legitimate gold farmers paying for a carry, but it’s not that and everyone agrees to be willfully ignorant about the nature of the way they play the game.
I opted to start doing GDKP in phase 1 because I’m not the greatest parser (well into purple average but not 99er) and knew I wouldn’t have first prio on big ticket items in my guild.
That’s just pure narcissism. If you’re a second disc priest or holy that’s not a surprise. If you’re dps you play a mid class at an above average level but since you know that isn’t what will push you through progression bosses you opt to spend your lockouts outside of your guild expecting to get gear prio in exchange for gold.
What’s your ideal alternative, OP? Do you think you’re going to get in to a guild and instantly get fed loot as a 4k gs tryout?
Play the game, get lucky, get unlucky, farm the gold yourself and pay for a carry, or raid with your guildmates knowing that bosses will eventually fall even if you aren’t doing top dps/hps.
Do you think you’re going to get in to a guild and instantly get fed loot as a 4k gs tryout?
No that’s dumb. I played Enh/Resto in BC until halfway through when I switch to Enh/Ele in SSC/TK with the full understanding that I would be passed up for gear upgrades over stronger classes. You play what the guild needs when the guild needs it. Also, you’re projecting. That’s what you expected.
Not sure what you really expected.
What I didn’t expect was for the culture surrounding casual gameplay to have gotten this bad this fast. New and returning players without a guild are immediately priced out of progression because other people expect the new players to farm gold (In competition with bots) for them in order to raid. People play classic because they don’t like retail, but classic has become retail with brain dead easy bosses and the same toxic culture all because people would rather pay botters and take botted gold no questions asked.
