Originally Posted by
StrawberryZebra
Finally managed to strong arm my way into a Mount Sharax raid last night, only took 12 months of trying!
Turns out that I probably shouldn't have bothered, in a few hours of raiding I've now got more people on ignore in Rift than I have in Dota and LoL combined. This community is absolutely vile to each other in a way that I've never seen people behave in a game before. We kicked our Bard just before the first boss, not because he was bad, undergeared of anything like that, but because he dared to try lighten the mood by macroing We are the Champions lyrics to his songs as he buffed us. Bulf had more F words in raid warnings than the Oxford English Dictionary. Jinoscoth was a complete and utter joke, it even included me being accused of having a "Damage Meter Hack" to make myself look good, because there was no way a Harb could be doing that much DPS.
The Ywra-thing-um-ma-jig was horrid too. I've done Yogg Saron before now, I know how to face away from a boss. Some people with 1400 hit and every achivement under the sun still struggle with the idea.
There was so much passive aggression, elitism, ego trips, wipes for the silliest of reasons and arguments over loot. In all my time gaming, I don't think I've ever seen anything even close to this bad before. It was my own personal circle of hell.