are people in WOW REALLY this mean all the time on purpose?

[Sukurachi]

ok, I am NOT the best geared hunter around.
But then, I solo and craft my own stuff, and do lots of quests.
So that means I don't HAVE all the "uber" cool high level end-game gear.
I don't raid, obviously (if I don't do high-end dungeons with others).

So, why is it that during a VERY easy holiday daily (Coren Direbrew), I get trashed for not doing enough damage?
Is it REALLY that important?
We killed him, no one died, everyone got their kegs.

But two party members really felt the need to lay into me for not doing enough damage?

There's really no wonder that WoW has such a bad reputation for having incredibly mean and unfriendly players.

[meepitco]

I agree. But it's best to ignore those people, since all they probably do is raid and think you have to have a really high ilvl to do anything. Just play WoW as you want too and ignore the *ssholes (excuse my french..)

[Kayb]

i had someone berate me for having a trinket that gave me +510 stamina.

according to them, i didn't need ANY stamina because I was a hunter, and should remove all stamina from my toon.

just because someone is flaming you, doesn't mean they know better. laugh and ignore 'em

[cowmuflage]

Eh your going to find incredibly mean and unfriendly players in any MMO or game for that matter. I can't count how many times I get hate for haveing a white tallstrider of all things :S

[Sukurachi]

the only thing I see "killing WoW", to be quite frank, is the attitude of its most elitist players.
there is very little openness to new players, or casual players.

[Vephriel]

Ugh, that's ridiculous. Coren's a loot pinata. Sometimes I queue for him in my PvP gear out of laziness to swap sets, and it makes no difference. There's no reason anyone should be complaining if he's downed and no one died. Some people are just jerks. -_-

[Nili]

I tank him on purpose on my shit geared paladin just to fuck with the douchebags that take this game too seriously. She never loses aggro and no one dies. I then loot my keg and leave the party.

Today I healed a normal cata dungeon on my newbie priest with my husband. My cat climbed in my lap and I said ''brb need to put my cat out'' after the first pull. The tank (not my husband) proceeded to run to the next pull and die. ¬.¬ He blamed it on me, so I refused to rez him and let him QQ.

Yeah there are awful people who play this game, but there are nice ones as well. In my opinion and experience, the good outweighs the bad. It's all about finding the right people

[Sigrah]

the only thing I see "killing WoW", to be quite frank, is the attitude of its most elitist players.
there is very little openness to new players, or casual players.

I hate to break it to you, but that's a fact of life in every MMO out there. My advice: Develop a thick skin and put whatever rude jackasses you meet on ignore. The good thing about elitist players is that they are few and far between, and you're not likely to run into them very often.

[Kalliope]

*eyes title*

Short answer: yes.

Coren is a joke. You have to be trying REALLY HARD to wipe on him (unlike, say, Ahune). People complaining? I wouldn't even bother acknowledging such idiocy. Total douches.

[Andine]

*eyes title*

Short answer: yes.

Coren is a joke. You have to be trying REALLY HARD to wipe on him (unlike, say, Ahune). People complaining? I wouldn't even bother acknowledging such idiocy. Total douches.

I actually managed to wipe on Coren once. Don't remember how really it happened, but healer disconnecting immediately may have played a prt.

[Kalliope]

*eyes title*

Short answer: yes.

Coren is a joke. You have to be trying REALLY HARD to wipe on him (unlike, say, Ahune). People complaining? I wouldn't even bother acknowledging such idiocy. Total douches.

I actually managed to wipe on Coren once. Don't remember how really it happened, but healer disconnecting immediately may have played a prt.

Chalking that up to extenuating circumstances. >_<

[GormanGhaste]

Like you, just about the only time I dip into the LFG is for holiday bosses. It's possible to run into unpleasant people who like the sound of their own voices, but most people are nice. Don't let the bad apples ruin it for you.

[Sarantha]

Uhm, I had urgent RL aggro when I zoned in to Coren on my ele shaman and had to go afk. Not one person said a thing and I did zero damage to Coren because I wasn't even present for the fight. Thats just ridiculous for people to say mean things about peoples' dps on a loot pinata boss.

[Tsuki]

Iunno, some people are just dumb.
During a ZG run, I had this tank complain and moan about how no one dodged any of the green stuff, and how the healer sucked.
Well... if he had noticed, me and two others got the achivement for not being hit by ANYTHING [It's Not Easy Being Green]. He was also constantly standing in the green pools taking massive damage. The healer was amazing to keep him alive.
Some people just like to make themselves feel better by saying everyone else is terrible. :U

[Cryptography]

two words for assholes:

/ignore

/votekick

[Rhyela]

I'd say you just got unlucky. I haven't played Rhyela in MONTHS. Her gear is butt compared to everyone else's by now. I decided to try Coren just to see if I could get the mount (so far, nothing). I'm sure my damage is way below everyone else's, but thankfully every run up til now has been silent. People get their crap and go.

I'm really sorry that they were like that, but they seem to be in the minority, at least when it comes to super-simple holiday bosses like that.

[Lisaara]

I've never run into that issue so yeah I gotta agree....just bad luck on your end.

[Sukurachi]

well, other than a REALLY bad experience once doing Culling of Strath. this is really the first time I've come across such incredibly vicious and mean treatment.

I've been doing Coren every day since it started, on all my 85s (I have at least 5), and have had no issues until this particular run.

I can't have been so bad, because a number of times, the groups I was with just kept reforming to redo the same thing over and over until everyone had had a chance for the multiple possible drops.

It was just so strange and hurtful to be singled out for such a personal attack.

[Moore]

I agree about the community thing, it's a PITA. I don't really care if peoples dps in my group is up to par unless it's extremely game breaking (I'm a tank). Just so long as I see them trying, but if someone else in my group starts being a real ass to one of my party members (had it happen a few times in randoms) I'd vote kick the elitist guy and keep the other and the rest of the party was happier because of it .

[Comett]

I don't think it's anything personal.

One time I was doing a midlevel dungeon on my hunter alt. I'm an exemplary hunter - by that I mean that I have a hunter main who I've played for 6 years so I know what I'm doing in dungeons... 99% of the time I am very quiet past a "hello" and "ty" at the beginning and end of a pug. Yet a couple of people decided they just wanted to layer hate on me for no reason, the vast majority of which I ignored, yet they just kept going... Finally we completed the dungeon, they wiped, I finished (eg. soloed) the last boss, mass rezzed them, said thanks, and left. Pretty obvious who the better person is there.

Another time, in normal Throne of the Tides, my boyfriend and I were dpsing and healing respectively. The tank stood in the shadow punch move that the second boss does (big purple circle on the floor) and got one-hit, then proceeded to blame me when the group wiped. I asked him to avoid the purple stuff next time, and he made some comment about "if I had aggro I could"... my boyfriend said "we didn't get aggro til you died, though". Mr tank proceeds to kick my bf. Seriously, that was the only word he said. What gets me? One of the dps - a hunter - absolutely SUCKED yet I had been incredibly nice to them, offered encouragement/light, friendly advice ("you might want to try and use Kill Command whenever it's off cooldown, it's a good BM move") - yet they still agreed to the kick and didn't tell me why. While the tank abused us the entire run, swore, used caps, and was a general asshat, my bf and I were the ones to "lose out" despite us being polite, friendly and even HELPFUL... that really got to me. I did end up reporting the guy and chatting to a GM about it but I'm not sure if anything came from it or not: as the GM said, votekicks work on a majority rule, but I pointed out, there WAS no reason, and my bf had said nothing to deserve a kick at all...

I don't see why some people so intentionally try to ruin the game for others. As mentioned before, Coren isn't hard; you can queue for him at level 84 and honestly he's probably almost soloable for some classes.

Try not to let it get to you, obviously you are a nice person and don't deserve to be treated that way, but their negativity will only hurt THEM in the end. I do agree that there are a lot of people in game who act just like rude little children, perhaps next time note their names and servers and report them. And try to remember the *good* pugs over the bad.