Nah.
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Iâm honestly at a point where I hope Blizzard templates gear in rated just to see what people will blame not hitting 1600 on at that point. This forum has next to zero interesting or knowledge-garnering posts because of this non-stop whining over gear, when in reality, there isnât a single person who started the expansion max geared at 0 cr.
The only case of a sensible argument I see people making are people who play nothing but unrated content who are getting skull smashed by geared premades, when theyâre just trying to have some chill games for fun. They max out at 200 and arenât trying to play sweaty games, so I totally get that. At the point youâre actively pushing ranked content, I can assure you with the most honesty I can muster into a statement, that your personal gear isnât the reason you arenât winning games.
Edit:
Hereâs how I ranked up this season as a first time PVP player.
-Played yolos till like 14-1500.
-Realized I was bad, so I started going to Reddit wowpvp and started wearing people out making posts daily asking questions and reading archived posts.
-Looked up guides, both text and video.
-Watched dozens of hours of high rated players who played my class, and sat in their chats until I got some questions answered, took screen shots of their layouts, and wrote down what addons they were using, etc.
-I absolutely refuse to run a BG without comms. Idc if itâs all r1/hero alts, Iâm not running in that group (unless itâs low cr alt matches, but even then I wonât most of the time). Because not being able to bothered with the miniscule task of hopping in Discord tells me they donât care if they win or lose.
-I btagged literally every RL/TC who was good and made sure I was only joining groups they were in, or I would try to get them in groups I was joining. Or even whisper them if they were online about getting one started.
-I started vetting groups I was joining to make sure people were around my CR, and would ask once we were in Discord who was doing RL, TC, etc. if no one answered or seemed unsure of themselves I bounced.
-I was adjusting my sleep to be online when most of the people on my friends list seemed to play (I work nights, it sucked).
Now Iâm at a point where I know a lot of what I need to improve on to go from being an alright player to a good player, and it took hundreds of games, 4 toons, and several months, and everything listed above to get to just being an âalright player.â I suspect getting to where I want to be will require an equal amount of effort, but thatâs the fun of the game, seeing yourself improve and seeing better and better players willingly accept you into runs. It feels absolutely dope to be in a Discord full of good players who hit you up to play and you go for it because you know itâs going to be a solid team and win or lose youâll have fun because the energy is going to be high and it will be a good game. Itâs not about some arbitrary numeric value, itâs about finding situations where you and 9 other people are giving the absolute best of yourselves to compete against 10 other people doing the same.
If you just want to ez clap something for some purples go run some H raids or +8âs, itâs easier.
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Honestly, if the game requires that much sweat, then itâs not worth it.
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It was a one time deal. I have an achievement to link that gets me into 90% of the groups I app to now, I donât have to worry about doing most of that stuff anymore.
But anyway, if youâre stuck at 1400 or wherever, do all that and you likely wonât be anymore.
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Is it like âMcDonalds hiring. Min Req: PhD in CS, Physics, Math with 4 years exp. We will pay you whooping 30k$ a yearâ
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Yea getting into RBGâs is so difficult. I am a 221 1800 Ret in 3âs/2âs and I straight up canât get into RBGâs either. Takes about an hour to get into an RBG and then when you get in everyone behaves like an idiot, we lose and they all leave and youâre back to square one. I know Iâm meant to lead if I want to get into them faster but some people (like myself) just simply are not leaders or canât lead for various reasons. Itâs big sadge
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Mention your arena xp, and learn to TC. It will increase your invites.
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Perhaps itâs time to move out of your parentâs basement?
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Actually, I stopped renting and bought a fairly nice townhouse in the city last Fall when interest rates were at record lows.
Imagine thinking people are poor and unsuccessful just because theyâre better than you at video games. Lol
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Youâre close but you forgot YOLO⌠So itâs more like:
YOLO RBGs for quest and honor only no voice
And than the description is where you hit them with the lawyer talk.
Description
âonly taking 3k xp players on alts, min ilvl of 226, pushing to 0 CR to 2800 today, Meta classes apply only, will be using disc and mic is required.â
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Yeah, itâs always the âlawyer speakâ that cracks me up when I read those descriptions.
Like, weâre playing at 0-1400cr man, just make sure that have a decent amount of gear and like 1750 achievement and inviteâŚItâs not rocket science.
You know how I know these groups are all full of crap? I have a screen shot of a yolo team I was on that won like 8 games in a row. The pic shows us beating a 2.1cr team by 5 capping them in deep wind gorge. 
itâs a joke man. By the way, the team I was on was like 1700 at the time.
We didnât even know each other and we werenât using voice. I bet they disbanded ASAP.
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This is why I share real life details when people try to get personal. Apparently I canât work a lot, spend any time in the gym, nor have a social life because Iâm good at a video game. Thatâs the typical mentality. Heaven forbid someone be doing well in life and be better than someone else at a video game. They need an excuse for being worse at the game, so they default to you somehow having more free time or nothing going for you IRL.
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Are you paying an actor for your cam. 
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Yeah, I donât like when people make assumptions or personal attacks. My brother is a glad with two jobs, he is just better at the game than me, plain and simple.
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Yeah, it always cracks me up when people try to stereotype people for playing WoW, as they play WoW themselves. âEveryone who plays this game is a nerd, except for me!â Lol
Whatever makes him feel better, I guess.
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When a girl asks me what Iâm doing and I say âPlaying WoWâ they go âoh?â I donât look like the stereotypical WoW player.
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lmao, just sadly so true
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Being a WoW player is a running joke between my girl and I. Sheâll call me a nerd, Iâll tell her what a lucky girl she is, sheâll roll her eyes. Good times. Lol
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Massive offtopic but itâs actually true. In my experience people who are relatively successful IRL usually donât do too bad in WoW either. Because usually such people have good determination and communication skills and that works well in competitive WoW.
I know a couple of smart people at work who play at a relatively high level, and they fast tracked through their careers pretty smoothly as well. They just donât have fears and anxieties that hold them back and they donât hide in no voice groups etc, they just Jump on discord and talk.
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you do tho, overcompensating with a gym bro affect is like super stereotypical of certain demographics of this game
