{"id":1861,"date":"2009-02-18T10:07:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T17:07:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-18T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T17:18:10","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual players are slackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A comment<\/a> on Tobold’s blog about the higher and higher requirements to be able to join a group:<\/p>\n

It really is about the risk on the time invested. In the second week of January, or so, it seems the majority caught up with the achievers, and all of a sudden there was a severe drop in the competency and preparedness of the average PuG’er. I started leaving a lot of heroic groups five minutes in when I’d end up doing over 40% of the damage or our “tank” had 18k health. The situation has degraded with PuG raids. I’ve seen a Naxx10 fail because six of the DPS were doing less than 1500dps.<\/p>\n

To me, it’s an issue of respect<\/u>. I invested time and effort into ensuring that I am competent and well-equipped enough not to hinder the success of the run. I expect the same in return from other players. DPS should significantly outperform tanks in their role. Tanks should have at least 5k more health than I do and be able to hold AoE threat. Healers in heroics should have enough spellpower to spare a heal on someone other than the tank, and enough awareness to see when they’re needed.<\/p>\n

Slackers who seem to think attendance qualifies entitlement show disrespect, and are undeserving of my time and effort.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am disgusted.<\/p>\n

Not at the reaction of this player (sample of a general trend) but of the fact that a massive game encourages and promotes this type of interaction.<\/p>\n

It’s also counterproductive, as the more requirements rise higher, the harder for new people to reach that level. A social fracture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A comment on Tobold’s blog about the higher and higher requirements to be able to join a group: It really is about the risk on the time invested. In the second week of January, or so, it seems the majority caught up with the achievers, and all of a sudden there was a severe drop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}