And that's why it's all a matter of preference. Your lack of involvement with performance doesn't make his involvement any less important.
I don't watch sports, but I can only imagine that those who do would scoff at the thought that "it doesn't matter how good my team plays as long as they have fun at it." For me, it's the same thing. I play to compete, both with myself and with the raid content. I push myself, I drive myself to improve, because I enjoy striving to be the best at what I do.
My definition of a good player differs from yours. Does it matter? Not one bit.
I couldn't agree any more, however the root problem is an asshole doing his best to get carried and literally telling others to fuck off. There is no redeeming quality there, and the burden to communicate lands on NO ONE. This particular type of person in these particular circumstances should be swiftly kicked from every group they sneak in to. The OP luckily took it upon himself to at least test the waters. No one knew this guy was a total dick until he was engaged.
"I feel bad for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Frank Sinatra
LFR does encourage people to be lazy. Personal exp as source. I just really ENJOYED slacking off in LFR pugs. Just sitting behind others eating ice cream while pretending to be DPSing by using Crackling Jade Lightning ( WW Monk )
Actually the fact I always had 1 fps during boss fights contributed the most. I simply couldn't do anything so to do atleast some DPS I decided to use casted spells ( or channeled and yes it helped ).
A lot of times people got mad at me and stuff....But I rememeber 2-3 times, when my FPS for some reason was varying between 10 and 13 I was like "Woah I can move. Well I guess I will DPS this time." I pulled off top DPS all 2-3 times.
Oh, don't get me wrong, there are those people that just want to be lazy dicks. That's why 99.9% of the time I don't offer advice to anyone unless they specifically ask for it (well, that and in most cases I just don't care what every one else is doing in something like LFR).
I'm mainly attempting to help the OP with finding more success in the future with his giving of advice, haha.
Either way, the liklihood of getting a "fuck off" response is much higher when you begin with a "fuck off" statement.
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When it comes to video games, I'm usually a sociopath. To me, the players are just an advanced form of NPC, simple variables that I hope will add up to the equation being my victory. If the variables fail, I seek to rid myself of them.
And how is it so hard to just say "no thank you" when someone offers unwanted help? The OP's offer doesn't justify a reply as toxic as "mind your own fucking business."
I love how this thread is mostly people telling the OP to keep to himself/herself and assume that all mediocre players want to be mediocre. Sure, his/her opening statement wasn't an ideal way to approach someone, but why is almost everyone here flipping out about someone offering to help a complete stranger? In the real world, helping out a stranger is praised and considered a selfless thing to do. Here, people are acting like it's some sort of social cardinal sin. *Sigh*
Why are we ignoring the fact that the other players' response was completely uncalled for and childish? That sort of behavior shouldn't be tolerated so much by other players. It breeds and spreads, and apathy towards it is why WoW has one of the worst online communities next to LoL.
"I feel bad for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Frank Sinatra
I wouldn't mind if someone offered me advice to improve my performance as long as they aren't like "dude your dps sucks, do better or im gonna kick you". I've got to say though, I've been playing this game for about 6 years now without any advice from people other than my friend who introduced me to the game and to this day I've been doing a pretty good job as a DPS or a tank without the help of anybody. Granted, I get the occasional douchebag who says im a bad player and would just kick me for no reason but other than that I've had no problems. So I'm not saying you shouldn't offer advice to people it's just with me, I like to play the game my own way instead of doing it the "correct" way. I value fun over being the best player in any game whether it's for competition or just a single player game. So saying that, this could've been the case for this warlock also who you offered advice to. I think it's great that you respectfully offer advice I'm just saying some people, like me, log on to WoW to just have a good time and some of those people, not me, react negatively to offered advice no matter how respectful the person giving the advice may be.
- "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black" - Jo Bodin, BLM supporter
- "I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun. The kids used to come up and reach in the pool & rub my leg down so it was straight & watch the hair come back up again. So I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap, and I love kids jumping on my lap...” - Pedo Joe
People can't handle the fact they are bad so when you point it out of course you get an asshole response. Just ignore the terrible players and move on - half this playerbase probably don't even search their rotation when they hit 90 or learn how to gem or enchant. Fuck it, it's only at other peoples expense in a raid or dungeon anyway right? YOLO!
If you don't understand why saying "Hey, you're doing less dps than the tank, if you want I can help you with your rotation" is insulting to a stranger, then you are missing basic elements of your understanding of human interactions.
Most people would instinctively know that unsolicited criticism is perceived as aggression.
If you don't just know that then you need to at least learn it.
Right, cause its totally not Blizzard's fault for completely and utterly failing to teach players how to play their class and what stats they should prioritize.
The fact that outside sources is required for players to know what to do is a failure on Blizzard's part. Not the player; players shouldn't have to read guides on how to gem or what their rotation should be; the damn game should teach you that. But no, lets blame the player because reasons.