PSA: Try to be understanding

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I just ran a random where a DPS was attempted to be vote kicked multiple times. The reason was “trash”. It never succeeded.

To be fair, the DPS in question was running 50k DPS, while everyone else was running 150k+, including the healer.

But I chose to PM the DPS in question to figure out what was going on and help them out, and really that’s what you should be doing. I gave them tips, and places online to look to get better.

  1. The group was doing well, we were smashing everything and just going through it like butter.
  2. The DPS in question (a hunter) was not pulling stuff or causing issues.
  3. Stuff was dying so fast, it didn’t even matter.

They were trying their best.

In the end…we wiped on the final boss cause the tank just pulled and pulled, and everyone, except me left. Queue refilled, and the boss was down in 30 seconds.

Moral of the story, DPS numbers are no reason to vote kick someone. If they are offensive, pulling when they shouldn’t OK…but the previous is just toxic.

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Problem solved lol.

Would like to point out how funny it is that the guy with horrible DPS left from wipes all the same. Sounds like he was just wanting to get carried.

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They are a reason. But depending on the situation, it might be a dumb reason.

Helping people is great and I always help when people tell me they’re new to the class, the dungeon, etc.

Yes, we should be helping each other. But there will be times when people refuse the help, ignore the help, then continue to bring down the rest of the group.

So it’s all going to be situational.

I believe in helping over kicking. But I can’t help those who don’t want help and are a detriment. But I will try first.

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Sounds like the votekick should have succeeded. A bug perhaps? I’d report it to blizzard.

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looks like everyone was in the same boat. thats not even half of what ppl should be doing :wink:

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people caring about dps in normal/heroic dungeons

:clown_face:

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ikr? why cant i just go afk and play with myself while others carry me through? the nerve

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They only left after basically everyone else left.

This was a normal dungeon, just fyi, not heroic.

And yes, they took the help I offered.

After talking with the individual in PMs, that was not the case at all. That kind of attitude sucks.

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you are stating an opinion as if it were fact.

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It was a normal dungeon, we were killing it, and prob could have done it with just a tank and a healer. For this specific situation, it is fact, we would have been fine regardless, and there was no reason to vote kick.

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Depends on the difficulty level of the content and how “off” their numbers are.

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It was a normal dungeon. Even if it were heroic, we all know that tanks pull wall-to-wall, and some specs just dont keep up with that. Especially when stuff just dies when looked at.

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In your groups defence, i will VTK if someones mog is bad or if they are a DH. -stares at Stay-

Just not a vibe, ya know?

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I thought only heroic normals and lfr can vote kick since its lfg what level of difficulty are you talking about

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I vote kick all gnomes those old god tainted creatures need to be put in their place

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I think it’s time Blizzard made getting kicked numerous times from groups becomes either an achievement or a feat of strength.

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And i respect you for it, no matter the reason, the VTK is always justified. Working as intended. /salute

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I think blizzards stance on votekicks is because they dont want to have to deal with hiring people to clean up the people “abusing” it

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If we initiate the kick enough can we get the title “Gatekeeper”

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I ran a dungeon with a DK who was doing 8k dps (not a typo, that’s 8,000 damage per second), he didn’t get kicked because everything was still dying quickly.

If stuff is dying in a timely manner, people are often way more tolerant of one person being almost entirely afk or just being bad. I don’t know. Most of the times I think people don’t get kicked unless things go wrong and people want somewhere to place the blame.