Yep. Advertise as bonus valor and no one cares. People just plow through thoughts. Also I’ve ran a few 10s with people in the 260s. Nobody cared. You just blow though it and move on.
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I dunno, I doubt people were complaining about your iLvl in a +2.
Heck, a friend of mine started playing again and I’ve been helping her get gear through M+, so I can only imagine what people in the 7’s and 8’s thought when a 298 iLvl, 2100+ rating warrior signed up with a 227iLvl barely 100 rating Hunter…
I have been invited to a +2 on my mage who was under 260 ilvl at the time (actually yesterday). Not to mention this healer when he was barely 240 ilvl (but that’s easier being a healer).
Point is, I suspect it wasn’t only because of ilvl. 275 is perfectly fine for a +2 and most groups seem to accept it.
Haha dungeons used to be for people gearing up for raids and pvp. But blizz slaps a timer on it and everyone thinks it’s hardcore material. Dungeons should go back to being a stepping stone to real content.
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Didn’t you know that M+ is serious business?
Is this Ralph and celebrate combined into one?
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Slapped a timer on it, raised diff. Added affixes and mechanics. There you go fixed that for ya.
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Also @OP.
You are allowed to play the game however you want but you are using the wrong legendary and covenant for your spec.
And playing arguably one of the hardest mage specs to play effectively.
Also you have zero enchants. Not even a weapon enchant. Like come on my guy.
And wrong talents. The longer I look the more forehead slapping is taking place.
I would wager dollars to donuts something else happened outside of your ilvl being the issue.
People talk about how easy it is to run keys but since their introduction in Legion I’ve found nothing but rancid toxicity in them. Granted I quit doing them a few months into BFA but still. This is exactly why I don’t run keys.
I can count the amount of times Ive been in a toxic key on one hand. And I have been running them since legion.
If room is always stinking, check your shoe. Just sayin
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I got KSM on my main and only time I find toxic folk is around the 7 to 8 key bracket.
14s to 15s is usually pretty chill.
If the group is freaking out someone is 275 for a +2 there’s a massive issue.
I sign up on my 290 warlock to +2s all the time for valor points or if I’m after a specific piece for a quick run.
I mean I wasn’t specifically referencing people freaking out about their iLvL
I just mean how incredibly toxic keys are (were) as a tank
Pull one wrong mob, take a path that a streamer didn’t take… People throw a fit, sometimes leave, etc.
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Ya that’s mainly a thing in that lower bracket but higher stuff is generally ok.
I dps and I just follow and pew pew what the tank pulls. If they got a slightly different route ok.
Long as it doesn’t involve some weirdo invis pot set up that is most likely gonna fail, then it’s fine to go a diff way.
And on today’s episode of made up stuff that didn’t happen…
Also, fun fact, even if by some remote chance this DID happen, if you only invited high ilvl people, they certainly finished it without you. In fact, they honestly more than likely didn’t even notice you was gone.
But yeah, there is like 0 chance anyone was mad at you for already overgearing the dungeon. I’d be far more willing to bet they mocked you for doing terribad DPS for your item level, if anything and even still I doubt anyone cares in a +2 where any halfwit tank can solo it in time on their own.
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With OPs covenant, spec, talent, legendary, and no-enchant choices I’d say the low dps mid key leave is much more likely.
I love playing my arcane mage. OP chose nearly all of the worst options.
Quicksim basically confirms this. With ideal play (probably not happening) OP could only potentially do just under 9k
I am not allowed to post links but anyone can run a quick sim on raidbots
Youre spare parts bud
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I don’t know how many +2-+4’s I’ve ran at 275+, and never experienced this problem…
I find it really depends on the day, right after restarts on Tuesday people tend to be much bigger wankers about it than say on a Friday
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What I imagine happening is the group started and like what most groups do, especially if the group is clearly way overqualified and geared for, is do as massive 1st pull as they can get away with since everyone has their full litany of cooldowns and the OP likely got absolutely curb stomped on said pull…maybe even by the healer even and someone made a comment about it showing disbelief that for someone with as much gear, how can they do so little with cooldowns and a giant pile of mobs to use them on. OP got butthurt and ran off and is trying to twist the narrative that it was them attacking their lack of gear (despite the fact 275 is what decked out S3 characters had going into S4 and people were getting KSM at those ilvls).
Assuming I’m right, and I probably am, should the group have said anything? Probably not. The OP is likely a far left of bell curve player but still perfectly capable of handling a +2 and there is just little reason to punch below your weight class unprovoked. I’ve ran plenty of low keys farming valor and quite often I was number 1 on the meters by a mile, yet I didn’t stoop to rub people’s nose in it when they very well may not be on my level. I thanked them for the invite and wished them good luck and moved on with my day.
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I guess I could see a scenario where it could happen. If I was at 275 and played really badly and someone made a remark about it and at the same time I had a razor thin ego, I might have done the same thing.
On the other hand, there’s a game feature called ignore. Use it. You came there to do a dungeon and get some IO score and possibly loot. Why let some douche dictate how you spend your game time? If I listed a +2 key I’d literally accept the first 4 people that applied. If they were higher ilvl I’d just skip a healer even.
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