You are a person, and if you get a failed key, fail in a group or just overall not doing well. It is ok, if the group treats you badly because of it. Report them, a failed group does not give anyone the right to treat you badly.
Blizzard is cracking down hard on these toxic people. Just remember, that you don’t deserve to be talked down on just because you did not play well. Or even if it is not your fault at all.
The more people get in trouble for this, the better the community will become.
Remember peeps : don’t use bad words. Just use the facts. “Low dps”, “butt pulled a dangerous mob”, “died too often”, “released and ran back from the start and held back the group”.
The more facts you use, the better chance someone that keeps failing with learn what is wrong with their play, instead of trying to shift blames to others “being toxic”.
Criticism <> toxic behavior. Telling someone they are an objectively bad/subpar player for X, Y, and Z reasons doesn’t make you toxic. It’s when you cross the line into attacking their being or wanting IRL things to happen to them is where you cross the line.
Telling someone to go kill themselves IRL or threatening to find them and beat them with a spiked club will get you a nice and hopefully perma vacay. Telling someone their output sucks and isn’t acceptable for this level of play and their inability to execute mechanics or follow a simple path to avoid avoidable mobs is feedback.
Alternatives : Garbage dps, Dumpster DPS, sub-tank DPS, “my 70 year old mother does more dps and she doesn’t even play this game”.
I’ve literally never seen that.
I’ve seen peeps criticize deaths and dps, and the peeps on the receiving end going into defensive stance against it instead of learning, but I’ve never seen party chat devolve.
It also goes both ways. If the group is being respectful saying you are dying too much or that your dps is low. That does not give you a right to snap back at them. You can get reported also.
Blizzard has been cracking down hard on players like this. Cussing, and arguing with players. So it is better to be “fake” nice and not risk getting in trouble.
and having to be fake nice is better than what we have now. So i’m ok with it.