I will mush them because I'm part of the community and I see it. We're crap to anyone not part of it. The rude comments, strawmen and insinuations we make are the worst. In some ways, I'm embarrassed to be part of it because negatively is how we're perceived and I've had to ensure people that I'm not to be painted with the same brush. I don't know what it is with so many in our community. The egos are staggering.
Simply declining? No, not in the slightest. When someone does it then follows up with "gtfo scrub" or something even worse (I've seen some nasty derogatory comments), yes it is. And I've seen people in our community (some in this thread) who unnecessarily talk to people like that and act as if they're doing them some kind of favor.
So, when someone doesn't get invited to my group and whispers me: "Why the fuck did you not pick me you fucking elitist?" is he then not part of "your community" where people talk unnecessarily shit to people?
I get that kind of whispers quite often when I make my own groups. For me the toxic people are those that feel entitled to be invited to my group and who lash out against me with vile language.
And by the way I am still waiting for your link where Blizzard says how we were intended to invite people to our groups.
As to the bolded part, even if you aren't bad, it makes you look like you're hiding how bad you are. You could be the best player ever, but if you literally have never played m+ in shadowlands on that character, there's no reason for me to think you know what you're doing.
My only issue with the system is that RIO at least lets you show your main/alt, so you really can say "I'm diamond on my other account..." and be credible. Will the new system have that feature?
Do you know what forum this is for?
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Maybe you’re not like that. Not everyone in the community is but you see comments on it in every forum and in this thread too. People can’t even make suggestions without enraging many mythic players.
I don’t know what it stems from. To be fair, it’s not exclusive. Raiders raged when non-raiders got tier gear when it was a thing.
It’s weird who does it. The don’t see pet battle players raging when non-pet battle players happen upon some rare pet.
Again, in my hundreds of runs I never had anyone make toxic remarks towards someone else’s rio score. I’ve never seen anyone give a shit about rio after the group is formed. We must be playing different WoW games, because those big problems you seem to encounter so often that it makes you comment on it in a forum are things that never happened to me and I pugged ksm in BfA and SL…
Of course not, but I would always prefer to pick person that has proven experience with the dungeons/a dungeon at the appropriate level on another class than someone who has no proven experience with the dungeons/a dungeon.
The optimal would of course be someone who has proven experience with the dungeon(s) and with his class, but sometimes you have to take someone who is adequate, and here experience with content always trumps experience with your class.
It's not perfect, but rio as a whole isn't perfect - all it does is tweak the odds for you to find a good player.
Does someone being 2,500 on a Rogue guarantee they can play Death Knight well? No. But is a 2,500 Rogue more likely than most other people to be good on a Death Knight, too? Yes.
I'd have loved to see some form of account-wide score system added to the in-game feature, but I never really expected that to happen. Blizzard's approach to these things has usually been to err on the light side with features wherever possible, and make it a very simple, condensed system that can be reduced to single values even at the expense of more useful data.
Maybe a rio addon will retain a place in the alt-score niche or in additional data, but just like Gearscore was replaced by in-game ilvl displays it's very possible for rio to be supplanted, too, in the long run.
Agree, but it at least shows that they've done the content and (probably) understand the mechanics. You can also just get boosted, so there's no foolproof way here. Point is, if my alt is KSM, I'm probably better to take than another person with better gear and 0 experience. Just makes alts more palatable to level/gear.
"I'll always take someone who proved themselves..."
/popcorn to watch people like this try getting heroic groups in TBC.