I finally understand why people are so afraid of moving into M+ and normal/heroic raids. For the longest time, being a former top player, title pusher etc, I just never saw this toxicity everywhere that people complaint about…that was until last week.
I’m a bit more casual now, sometimes I make a run for title, sometimes I push for CE (obviously on a different account), but usually I’m more casual. Hitting top 1% in M+, getting mostly through mythic raid before I call it quits.
But, given it’s the season start, I wanted to get a few alta going so I ran through time walking for the quest and some LFR for some tier. Holy crap, is casual content toxic AF.
I jumped into a time walking dungeons and the load screen stalled out. So I quit the game and restarted, took maybe a minute. I zoned in and they were on the first boss and I was locked out…I apologized for being late, and I entered the boss room after he was defeated. As I exited, I was kicked.
Fast forward to that night, I jumped into LFR. During some trash my doorbell range, I wrote in chat brb doorbell. Was gone 45 seconds. Came back, was on the city kicked out.
People complain that the timer for M+ is too intense and causes anxiety. Have you ran TW or LFR? If you are 10 yards behind you get kicked, it’s insane. I’ve never seen this speed even in 0.1% keys.
Now I understand but the issue is casual content is toxic, not the actual endgame content.
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People are toxic. You will find it anywhere. I’ve had both experiences in all forms of content. It’s asinine to lay a blanket judgment on any group or part of the game.
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We did it boys.
We got one.
“I’m obviously a top end ce raider on my other account. It goes to another school. In Canada”
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I’m more afraid of wasting my time.
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Simple disable chat. You can ping everything no talking is required.
It is sadly the nature of M+
Infinite scaling + required Meta (+ / - key fluctuations) = disaster
I can only do M+ with guild & friends because they aren’t going to flip out on me for screwing up by accident, and accidents happen but they can’t happen in M+ or you get a face full of angst
Lastly, and IMO, it was a horrid idea for an e-sport and changed the game for the worse.
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I do not like pugging keys, and will try to at least have a couple guildies in the group. I will say I ran into the most patient and helpful DK tank when myself and 1 other guildie tried to do a 2 floodgate. We went way over the time, the group was kinda low dps but the tank was nice and explaining everything.
Its always a roll of the dice of what the people are going to be like on the other end of the screen.
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There are certain rules you need to follow as a casual. One of the big ones is keeping your mouth shut. Never announce when you’re going afk. That’s just asking to be kicked.
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Welcome to the wrong side of the tracks.
I have one single ‘fear’…if you want to call it that…there will be some mechanical mouth in the chat box foaming at other players so hard that I’ll end up responding and saying crap that’ll leave emotional scars. Based on what Ive seen in group content, i dont expect it to get any better at higher levels of competition.
Not worth my time or energy or effort. I prefer staying where Im at so I can actually enjoy playing the game
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Pssh
Casuals are the most protected class of people on the forums
Anyone else is open to be insulted. Casuals? Don’t even suggest content should be 10% harder.
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Most toxic stuff is in lower content , cuz people have the option to replace players without consequences
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Silence you. You’re a gobbo and I am a superior gnome! 
Gnomes only are superior than goblins at one thing.
Dying.
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I killed gallywix. He was crushed not by his mech. But by the might of 10 thousand gnomes!
10k gnomes sounds like one of those what if battles.
What would win. 10k gnomes or one mountain lion
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That sounds like an awesome coliseum battle.
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Just remember.
Gelbin Mekkatorque: 1.
Jastor Gallywix: 0.
I don’t know who gilben is
At this point they should start phasing out M+
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