ive attempted 20 keys today and all but 2 were unmitigated disasters , the players ive seen today range from 2100 - 2700 rating for m+ & oh dear god is that a red herring.
ive seen probably the worst tanks ive ever seen in 18 years of wow today.
Boosting is the cause of this & there has to be a way of flagging someone in the group finder as a clearly boosted player so you can avoid them in the future at all costs.
doing keys use to be simple , the higher the rating the better the player and only rarely would you see players at 2500 rating that were completely awful but since 2500 is the hero achievement now people are buying it so 2k - 2500 is a complete lottery & its getting very very boring failing key after key after key because the tank hasnt got the first idea of what they are doing
rant over
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I’ll take your word for it, although I’m certain this whole community’s foundation is “git gud” so unfortunately boosting will never stop.
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You know there’s a saying: “If you run into a [terrible player] in the morning, you ran into a [terrible player]. If you run into [terrible players] all day, you’re the [terrible player].”
Or something like that. 
lol…
It couldn’t be that some people simply aren’t as super-awesome-amazing-sauce as you. No, they must have bought their rating. That’s the ticket! " " again
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Its been bugging me and I gotta say this, that helm makes gnomes so damn cute.
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many of the people at that batch of rating are pretty bad right now, sadly ive been seeing many players around 1000 rating right now are just straight savages. Must be many good players are leveling their next batch of alts. Also there was definately a crowd of people who are clearly boosted that got prog higher IO scores on runs. Like 2-3 weeks ago those people were around 1700 and now that they moved up, trying to push lower keys is very very easy.
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I’m just convinced the general NA population is terrible. Most of my high keys with oceanic folks have been smooth sailing, only downside for me is the latency.
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This what happens when “Itcha boy, 69pirateX” is showing off his WoW toon (which was boosted/carried by his supporters) and every neckbeard + headset kiddie want to be the next streamer.
Blizzard can’t fix social media envy.
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you sound like a boosted andy upset at someone calling them out ?
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Is that it? “No u?” Please.
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do you have anything of value to add ? or are you just here to be an obtuse little troll.
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Buddy’s got a point. 20 keys in a day that were all disasters? Common denominator is you my dude.
Assuming everyone is buying rating is also pretty wild. I don’t know anyone who’s bought rating, I’m sure it happens, but since I and no one I know has purchased it, I never assume someone else has. One of those “when you point at someone else, you got 3 fingers pointed back at you” situations.
Also, if you’re regularly doing high keys, why aren’t you friending good players you meet along the way? Or inviting them to some kind of M+ community? You could be making your own network of “trustworthy” players. Of course you can only actually do this if they want to group with you too… So, I guess see the first point again.
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Yeah statements like this make sense in a lot of different contexts, but M+ runs in WoW is not one of them. It is actually possible to just run into terrible players all day.
This community is atrocious at playing video games. Being forced to pug because my work and family schedule is constantly changing chaos made me quit.
I met so many 2200+ players that couldn’t DPS to save their life or just died to mechanics all the time, either on trash during Fort or on Tyrannical during bosses.
I truly realized how bad the WoW community is when doing HoV on repeat and seeing how many of the high rated “top 5%” players died to Sanctify on Hyrja.
Pugging Azure Vaults 13-15 Tyrannical keys on my tank last week was the final straw. The amount of people that died to boss mechanics in the 4 hours I ran that zone was astonishing.
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yeahh my fault that a 2700 tank doesnt know what ignore pain is & gets 1 shot on the first mob in halls of valor on a +17
clearly thats a pro player that hasnt bought their rating …
Look at count of timed keys. At this point if the season, having less than 50 timed keys is a red flag. I casually play this Druid (since guardian is dog water) and I have 75 keys timed, just doing a few for the vault.
Not all boosties are buyers too. Some just have friends. I have a few friends I run through 18s for the vault every week who probably aren’t good enough to pug one. But it looks like they could on their rating.
Keys are just more difficult this season. That’s what everyone wanted, right? Stick it to the m+ crowd for having too much fun.
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And uh… How exactly is a warrior supposed to case IP before the first pull? Charge only generatea 20 rage, and ip only blocks about 30k damage.
You want to put shield block up first since it gives you 100% block rate, which is about 10-30k less damage every hit, depending on ilvl and Crit rating.
IP is low on the list of priorities.
Well when your lagging you need to have a better reaction time not shocked to be honest.
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He just doesnt understand how it works.
Dude names one situation out of his 20 keys.
Why is the game that is now filled with snap one shots and more hazards than ever on every single pack now causing more wipes and frustration!?
People will adjust, I guess. They’ve made it more obnoxious literally every single expansion since Legion and this one was a bigger step forward than before.
M+ really seems like it’s governed by people who are seething that you don’t want to do their raids. I do raid though… I raid in FF.
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Yeah but that’s just me if I’m in their group, they have good ping.
Is it a good time to get KSH? I’ve been waiting to do m+ for the casual group to get out of the way since I always pug mine.