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Is this an exaggeration? lol xD
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No. Some of Blizzard’s forums even let you freely see peoples’ battletags - like Diablo 3’s.
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Thats a blatant lie.
I make new friends in lfg all the time.
Met some while questing in tww. Met a few last night just spamming dungeons.
If you talk, it opens all these doors. Most just dont want to be the first to talk.
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Some people mistake their own inability to socialize as a game wide problem. If you tell them to start talking to people and put themselves out there, they start to respond with anger. It’s a lost cause, some people are just naturally anti-social even in a social game.
What are the low lvlig dungeons ? Still BFA ?
Again it goes back to talking.
If you join an lfg and go “hey guys, quick heads up! We are new and learning!”, most will not care.
This game is so old that it is assumed most know what is going on. So if you don’t say anything, people assume you are being lazy or just bad.
But most are happy to help new players.
Communication.
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Literally saw this in a classic retail lowbie dungeon. lmao.
Tank said it hadnt run old dungeons in quite a while, took a left turn instead of right…very quickly corrects and some dillrod baby popped the vote kick AND it passed lol.
Yeah…they can find a healer while theyre at it. Im out.
I cant believe sometimes I go to heal lowbie dungeons to maybe help new players a bit and that childish crap happens there too. lol.
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They changed the base/main story to be updated for DF, now, and not BFA. Not sure how a new player would get through the Norkud offense dungeon, but some may like it. (If I’m referring to the flying one.) I didn’t have a problem with it, but some new players might?
But to be honest…with his sort in this game do you really want to subject yourself to his obviously juvenile attitude/behavior?
I dont.
Maybe AI dungeons ARE a good replacement for human interaction if those humans cant behave decently.
The ball has been in Blizzard’s court for a very long time to fix their design to not facilitate this culture. There’s plenty of ways to do it, they just haven’t done them.
For instance, they could stage dungeon content where you must defeat two or three groups of mobs first before you can advance in a dungeon. Pulling the whole dungeon is a stupid meta and should not be a thing. The design needs to be fixed.
And while follower dungeons are a great direction, they’re in no way a training tool other than perhaps looking at dungeon layouts. They need to incorporate how actual group runs go. If pulling the whole dungeon is the standard, that’s what the tank should do in the AI dungeons. Yes it’s stupid, and it shouldn’t be that way, but they need to mimic how things actually play out if they want follower dungeons to be viable as a training tool. Or just simply fix their dungeons’ meta design.
Also, they could just add a check box where players can select it “fast run” or something and get matched together.
They’ve incorporated none of these things that I can just think off the top of my head within 10 minutes of pondering the issue.
In the end, the toxic community blizzard has is a manifestation of their own design. I’ve seen so many great ideas over the years and none of them get implemented. Making codes of conduct that simply just silence people from speaking because someone might get offended by a blue humor joke that is politically opposed to their own points of view is not fixing the problem. It’s not even remotely part of the problem.
This is the problem of toxicity. The OP’s example. And Blizzard does nothing about it.
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I have to say this is a great point. If I’m in something for the first time, I tend to say “first time here” or something to let folks know that I’m learning.
Ain’t been kicked for that, yet. But hopefully it helps.
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That dungeon sucks, specially for new players, might not know where to land for the last boss
lmao…yeah, its ‘safe’ when the ones posting theirs are in the group of folks who ARE the problem on this forum. lol.
Like thieves telling YOU its ok to leave YOUR door unlocked knowing YOU AINT coming to burgle them lmao
The worst that will happen is you’ll get unsolicited friend requests from people you don’t know. There’s not much else people can do with your battletag
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This would be a great idea! It’d really help folks if they do not want to race through the dungeon, but take it at a more easy pace. The follower dungeons aren’t too bad, but I don’t know if they give the same amount of experience, doing them?
I was thinking of making a Community group in game where we could find folks that don’t race through the dungeon. For me, it’s weird to see others take the roll of tank and then not grab threat at all? But follow the parade of mobs to the boss. This kind of playstyle is not fun, to me.
edit: ooo! If someone makes a chill group/non racing Community or one exists already, please let me know about it! ! ! I’m kinda new to that stuff but I’d love to make one to help out folks. 
lol, Ah! Much thanks for the info. I was like should I put that in the chat? xD
The only talking I’ve ever seen anyone do so far is asking if someone needs an item that just dropped lol. People like you are incredibly rare in my experience, most people wont even respond to you even if you do say anything.
This is a good suggestion. Sometimes I don’t feel like pulling the whole room and sometimes so feel like pulling the whole goddam room and melting them.
Would be nice to have this option just to make it easier for all of us.
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Blizz has allowed, and even rewarded, simply awful behavior in game for over a decade now. Now we’re seeing the results of a large number of vile folks who’ve been allowed to stay in game even if only to troll others. I’d suggest you give GW2 a try. The community is vastly more friendly to new/returning players, and the few trolls that try to infiltrate the game are dealt with quickly and harshly by support staff.
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