I did not. Re-read my post. I said I tend to avoid people who act elite to anyone.
The new affix Vulcan replaces volcanoes and forces the players to weigh the needs of the many over the needs of the few…or the one.
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Ok. Where is the OP acting elite?
“I have 43 people applying, and some have better gear for harder content. i will prefer those”
It isnt your loot. Its our loot.
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Did you say… one?
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I’m so snobbish to myself I routinely gatekeep much needed rest and stay up far too late. 
I often proc chaos at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, entirely localized within my mind
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Man, sidebar but that is a pretty solid pic
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There are many other groups out there and you could always make your own.
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss.
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So you gonna complain to your boss at work they gatekeep too? Afterall thats what an application is, a bid to something in which a different person chooses whether or not your bid made the cut.
So basically everything is gatekeeping according to you :3
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Gonna be hard to do five dungeons at the same time when 1 of those 43 players is a tank, 2 are healers, and one is a Ret Paladin who swears he can keep the party up with WoG (as long as it’s not during his wings window)
It’s super important nobody need healing during wings time.
That’s big number time.
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It is gatekeeping, and it is not a bad thing.
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I will gatekeep and invite only tanks
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It is gatekeeping, and that’s totally fine. Lean into that skid. Don’t try to avoid it. Embrace the concept. The sooner you get out of the denial phase, the better. If people have an issue with it, it’s their problem, not yours. They are free to create their own pug, or pull together some guild members or friends to go do their runs with them.
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I’m a fan of making groups myself. Here’s a neat story, and promise there’s a point other than bragging here. I leveled a up yet another Evoker, because…I just can’t help myself. After taking oh, I don’t know, three days to leveling (and I’m not the fastest leveler mind you), I hit 80 yesterday. Skipped heroics altogether, Did the world quests that gave 567, the ones that gave valorstones, weekly cache stuff, and bought a few level 80 pieces from the AH and upgraded. From 540 to 571 in a couple hours, logged off.
This morning at 571, I made a group from T8 delves did two easily with the same group. Made another and did two more. Logged off at 586. So, in less than 4 hours of doing end game stuff, went up 46 iLvLs. The point is some folks like to say that gear doesn’t mean much, well I can tell you what it means to me, as a group maker. It means you’re someone who puts in effort.
Would anyone accept poor old DPSing Natagosa as 571 for tier 8? No. I tried, because I felt like being lazy this morning. I accept people that are 571 in my groups, because I understand people like alts etc, plus I like being a sweetheart like that, but I know why most wouldn’t. Because outside of alts and being new, gear can, but doesn’t necessarily equal effort, and if a person isn’t putting effort into gearing, then are they really going to put a lot of effort into, well, knowing the fights, or learning/optimizing their rotation/class mechanics, and if they’re new, honestly, how good could they be? Also, make your own groups friends, it’s just better…being in control…muahahaha…
There’s a pretty nice distribution of people in this thread. Some folks rationally explaining how people’s definition of gatekeeping would be insane to try to apply in any practical sense, then you have folks calling things gatekeeping when it isn’t, and the rest of it is memes.
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People need a lesson in keystone economics. Keyholders= “the soft carry”, it’s acceptable for them to have a slightly lower ilvl than the people they invite. They are the pusher, they are pushing for higher gear and higher score. This is the exchange for holding the risk of the key dropping in value, not being able to decide which dungeon they are doing and having the responsibility of putting the group together.
People who sign up to keys are usually either ahead of the curve or overqualified for the key they are signing up for, in exchange for this they don’t have to worry about whether they key gets pushed or not, they get to chill while the group gets set up and they have the freedom of being able to farm any dungeon they want.
This is the exchange, if you aren’t at a good ilvl for the key you are doing it’s very likely you should be a keyholder instead of a person signing up.
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I have had a weird thing going on with me in LFR this time around. Except for a couple of What The Fel moments, I haven’t really died to mechanics.
I’m not running DBM at all either (or any addons at the moment). But for some reason, I can see the mechanics a little better as a DH when I play her at a certain camera angle.
/shrug. I don’t know. It’s interesting at least.
The swirlies seem better this expac.
People can see the Ilvl of the keyholder too tho, early on until im geared enough i try to avoid the situation you listed, but being a tank/healer gives me the ability to be picky about what groups i sign up for xD
Sounds like discrimination to me.
Reported.