what caused this?
people just look at american political system for aperfect example
people thinkin jewish space lasers that only target white christian males exist
can cause alot of divide
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People say this and never wonder WHY. I was a tank and my brother in law a healer, along with my sister we needed two dps for our dailies my heroics in TBC and we had a nice list of reliable/ good dps that I assure you never had to wait because I would run with them if they ever whispered me even alone.
People who had to wait that long, even as dps should look in the mirror. Were you bossy? Did you refuse to do CC? Was there another reason that once a group ran with you they didn’t add you to run with again later?
I guess everyone will have their own memories of this, I know during TBC there were only two regular pug groups that did Mag’s Lair and Gruul… if you were a jerk in those you’d be stuck spending hours trying to build and lead your own.
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Yes, I am not bossy. Yes, I always sheeped mobs when the pull required it, which back in Vanilla/TBC was much more prevalent than now. And I did make friends and eventually got into a guild and these problems went away. But even before then, more often than not, most PuGs I participated in went very smoothly.
But the fact was, back at that time, there were way more DPS players looking for groups than tanks/healers, nothing new there. And I did know certain tanks and healers I enjoyed running with, and I knew others that I wouldn’t. But IF trade chat was an inefficient and unpleasant way to get groups together.
It might have happened long ago for some people, but it’s also largely a myth. Tradesmen at the pinnacle of a servers economy might have been known, but that’s a very small percentage of a player pop. People who are exceptional in PvP or PvE have greater representation now because of Ranking or Raider IO. If a person leaves a lot of keys, their IO will probably suffer.
People have a romanticized idea that negative behavior was punished, when in reality old WoW was chaotic and crazy. You might get a random person shouting in Trade Chat not to group or trade with a certain person, but there were thousands of new people playing the game every day, and they didn’t know what was going on.
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Raider io doesn’t really punish failing or even outright leaving, at least the addon doesn’t. It basically just gives you a score based on the highest level of each of the 8 dungeons you’ve competed. If I’ve done everything at +15 but quit 100 runs I’ll have the same score as someone who had done each done successfully at +15 twenty times and never quit.
Looking at the website and digging will provide more detail but very few people do that below like 16-20 range
You can join a guild and have that community. LfG is one of the best things ever added. My main guild even does things with the other faction occasionally.
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LFR or LFG is not hurting wow. That is just crap someone made up to make themselves feel better.
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