I’m the one on here bashing casuals as much as anyone, and frankly, alot of them deserve it. The non-stop complaining here about why they don’t have the same stuff as people that play 10 x as much as them at 10x the difficulty is just pathetic. The constant whining about how they can’t walk into groups when 30 other people are trying to fit into 5 is pathetic. Their constant whining about everything is pathetic. The nonsense that they spout just demonstrates how ignorant they are of how the game works.
The thing that really gets my goat is the expectations around loot. ’ There shouldn’t be such a big gap in loot’, ‘where is my progression?’, ‘why is this gear only ilevel xyz (normal raid std)’. They think they should be able to keep on doing the same thing over and over again and the rewards for the same wq or LFR should just keep getting higher. Why? ‘I pay my 15 bucks to’ isn’t an argument. Why should someone playing 5 hours a week doing only wqs have normal/heroic/ mythic raid gear? They’re so ignorant they think every raider is walking around with a 226 ilevel. There are CE raiders that don’t have that. The casuals systems of gearing should place them at around 198-200 by now if they are actually playing the game, like at all. I’m 218. Im 1800 rbgs and 1000rio, so what is a fair gap between us? I do 10 m+ every week and have ground out 130 odd rbgs. What’s a fair gap to reflect their considerably less effort, 205, 210, 215? 205 invalidates the efforts of casual normal guilds right off the bat. 210 invalidates semi decent heroic only guilds. 215 invalidates 90% of the game. Why does their want for gear for doing nothing outrank other people’s need to be rewarded for actually doing something. If we should accept raiding for no gear upgrades(because we can just get them from wqs), why shouldn’t casuals accept no gear from wqs. It’s frankly stupid, selfish, ignorant entitlement from alot of people on these forums, and it is completely unhealthy for the game. If you want LFR, LFG, and wqs to be your endgame, that’s fine, but its not the real endgame, there is plenty more that players can do in the world. Don’t complain that the game rewards reflect this.
Their pathetic worldview seeps into every aspect of wow. These were the same people that were using addons to fake achievements to get into groups and routinely ask blizz to break addons like raiderio. I haven’t even used raiderio until SL, and ill tell you what, it is a eye opener. 190 ilevel people with 200io scores applying to +10s/12s when their best gear on the dungeon is a +4, yeah ok. They’ll arrogantly whinge that my unwillingness to carry them through something they haven’t even come close to doing before so they can skip an entire layer of gear progression is ‘elitist’. I’m not your slave, i get to play with who I want. If you keep on getting declined for groups, maybe you’re the problem. I respect people’s time, I don’t sign up for something I don’t think I have a really good chance of succeeding at. I don’t have to ruin my fun so you can have yours.
These casuals are the same people that will call what I have just said as ‘toxic’, and then in the same breath call me names and infer I am single (i’m not), neckbeard (well sorta), with no job (100k+ job actually). Its the same dance over and over again. Frankly, I’m glad Blizz kicked their teeth in after BFA. They gave 95% of what raiders had, and they whinged non stop about ‘where is the other 5%’. Even Blizz worked out that these people are idiots and not worth listening to, and the game is all the better for it.
For all the rubbish spoken about the gearing system right now, I am higher ilevel than I have ever been this early in a tier. I adapted to where the gear is dropping and have been rewarded for doing so. If you play a balance of content (not even that high end) it is absolutely raining gear atm. Those who refuse to (not just casuals btw), are the ones whinging.