The obligatory players who yells “THIS TEAM SUCKS!” in BG chat whenever their side is losing. What they don’t realize is “they” are also on the team…thus they suck too.
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I like how people blindly regurgitate this then when I go to verify it he has a video of him saying he intends to start picking it back up within a month just he doesn’t want to stream games he doesn’t feel like playing at the time because then his streams are short and he’s not entertaining his viewers which upsets them.
Like ffs I’m not even a fan of this dude but at least try to research a bit.
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What an odd post. I would like to create an alternate:
Please rate the decency level of WoW Players. I define decent players as those who aren’t mean spirited, nasty, always accusatory without a reason, verbally abuseive etc, insulting, disruptive, rude or offensive, etc etc.
So my rating of the above is: a lot. Maybe 90%.
Because you dont hear them as they arent all of those loud, intrusive things. They just play the game, do their thing and dont bother anyone. They are quiet, and quiet isn’t loud, obviously, so you mostly dont notice them. The toxic ARE loud and intrusive so there SEEMS to be more of them.
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Imho the percentage of toxic players depends.
In game, I’d say about 15%.
In forum depends on the topic at hand, running the gamut from nearly 0% on some threads to almost 100% on other threads (for example, anything about Sylvanas). As an average, I’d say about 25%.
Much less than Twitter, anyway, which to be honest sounds at 101% all the time.
As usual, Knee, I like your mindset. In my less grumpy moments I’d probably agree with your 90% assessment. 
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10% is still pretty high. That’s still running into a toxic person every other dungeon run on average. It’s a low percentage, but the effect can be so bad that it’s still a problem. A low skilled player is going to encounter toxicity at much higher rate too. How many posts have you read of people saying they refuse to do mythic+ because of their experience of toxicity?
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My definition? Nearly 0.
This definition? Probably close to 100% 
I would say based on this definition nearly 100% of society is toxic lol.
1 research = 1 view 
All a clever trick for traffic
Someone belittling another is equally as toxic as doing competitive content without knowledge and expecting others to compensate for you.
Somewhere in between us the rest of the playerbase that isn’t effected by it.
Come prepared and you won’t trigger people, sometimes without knowing it people can inadvertently be the catalyst for bad behavior.
If you just enjoy the game and not let anyones misery likes company attitude effect you, you will hardly notice the trolls and buttheads
I’m not sure about a percentage as… sad to say i’ve been seeing a rather toxic side of WoW for a while. The reason is well everything is a competition lately, people are literally hating on people or kicking them from dungeons, guilds, raids, and PvP unless they play what is dubbed best even if it’s not the way they enjoy playing the game. The game used to have very little toxicity but over time those elitists slowly worked their way up to being able to spread their toxic behavior to others. I’ve seen someone get booted from a raid for not being specced the way they were told was ‘correct’ or ‘proper’ when they weren’t doing anything crazy like tanking in cloth or doing dps as holy oh no…they were trying to fill their role in their own fashion that worked out for others later on. The elitist problem got worse with the world first mythic race stuff sad to say as if you’re not the best you’re garbage or whatever. I’ve been verbally attacked and hated on for asking why the mythic world first thing became an E-Sport to begin with. I mean why make raiding a competition too? What they realizing PvP doesn’t for some reason get enough attention they gotta taint raiding with it too? Then…you look at the forums and yes…a lot of the bile and toxic spew is here too… I mean we got a lot of it when they ruined Sylvanas, we Vulpera get hated on a lot lately as to some people playing a Vulpera is just wrong, there are people hating on the idea of worgen getting optional tails for crying out loud… I’m sorry…but between the story going in the toilet and the toxicity of this game I can’t see this game surviving too many more years at this rate. Unless the next expansion is the best ever and amazing and makes us forget all the trouble… the toxic atmosphere and bad story are going to rot the game away.
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But honestly, for me it’s less than 2% mostly because I don’t pug anymore. I only heal for my guild so really no more toxicity for me.
I’m not gonna use a number, instead I’m going to tell you my experiences with it.
When MoP came out, I was excited to play a Monk. I wanted to make a Brewmaster so much, they looked fun too!
I tried out tanking for the first time just so I can check it out…lo and behold I didn’t know what I was getting in to.
Was told that they wished my future children would get cancer. That they would doxx me then try to kick my butt, or my favorite, uninstall the game and hang a noose off the rafters.
I never tanked again, not even in games like FF14 or any other MMORPG BECAUSE of it. I could barely even do it in single player games because that anxiety kicks in for me.
Growing up hearing my name in the same context as a swear word tends to make me antsy a lot of the time. I’d rather stay DPS and not enable people to bully me; why give them a reason when I could be the one of MILLIONS of faceless DPS?
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10% or so, but nasty enough that it can seem much worse.
Maybe as many as half are essentially selfish players, who are uninterested in cooperative play or even particularly concerned with how they impact other players enjoyment.
I think maybe another 10% of players are antivenin - that is, they go out of their way to be considerate and helpful to other players, most particularly new players. This isn’t quite enough to offset the emotional damage wrought by the worst, but it helps.
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I do this. When I help someone I tell them the only thing they need to do is to not only help someone in need, but to tell that person to help someone in need as well and in turn tell them the same thing I said.
I hope my chain hasn’t broken and that those people fulfilled their promise; I just wanna make the game a nicer place one person at a time.
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Toxicity is bound to happen nearly everywhere. As some said above, it’s a small percentage of players, but given this is a multiplayer game, we’re bound to run into them constantly.
It’s also a lack of maturity overall. Politeness is less occurring than rudeness. You’ll have wipes and whatnot to complete silence. That could either mean everyone is brooding, or no one cares. And then you’ll have wipes to absolute rage. Rarely do I see a discussed wipe with a positive outcome.
It doesn’t help we have a lot of non-english speakers among us.
“move”
“please move”
“go”
“go”
“go”
“orb death”
I gather that based on your toxicity of definition nothing is ever toxic?
I think toxicity has many degrees, like most things.
Just annoying stuff.
Ignore list and/or thread muting stuff.
Removing by mods stuff (use with caution).
Ban user stuff (use with a lot of caution).
110%. Probably the absolute worst I’ve seen in any MMO. other genres have just as bad/worse communities but no MMORPG has the level of toxicity, gatekeeping and elitism as you find in WoW.
I constantly wonder why that this. WoW attracts the worst kind of player, while other games have people who are much more willing to help/aid you not treat you like a tool to be used and discarded, or think it’s not their job to help the community.
Something about this game attracts the worst kind of degenerate gamer, who ruins things for everyone else and defends it by claiming it’s “fun” for them and, therefore, acceptable, and poisons the game itself with what they want it to be, totally ignorant of why it’s detrimental to the genre as a whole and a big reason why MMORPGs and WoW in particular have stagnated.
If that were the case I would have just said so lol.
I said “gather”. It stems from your statement that 0% or so of behaviour qualifies as toxic for you, under your definition.
I think you don’t really mean that, but you are too fond of playing with words imho. Words have meaning.
And I was informing you that I would just say so, no further gatherings necessary 
I do.
Oh? What’s the universally accepted meaning of toxic?