(it was an assumption again but with their posts in the forums they better be good enough to be a booster at least 
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Such a cool picture! I love it 
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Funnily enough they’ve always come across the complete opposite to me, never bothered to check though.
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It’s the arrogance, mostly. But fair enough, i should have re-read their post before saying something 
mah bad(and i’m totally NOT going to go through someone’s characters and logs just to prove a forum point)
Arrogance is no guarantee of skill though.
I’m not making a judgment either way. I have no idea how they play.
We have seen some people make claims, but when they are checked out on the armory or other sites, they don’t have any experience.
I consider myself to be very average 
I play for fun.
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I’m guilty in the past of doing it out of boredom, but mostly to see if there’s something there I can genuinely help with. Dealt with a lot of comments in the past about shadow being unplayably weak only to check and see they’re running completely incoherent talents.
average doing 22s is not average, but then again when i did these keys i called myself terrible at the game anyway so i get ya
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The median is not the mean is what I always say. In general the further away from the median you are, the less useful using it / percentile data for your own personal evaluation becomes. Knowing you’re in the 0.X% of something doesn’t tell you how far away you are from what’s possible, just that very few people are as close as you.
Gatekeeping has ALWAYS been a thing even in Vanilla and BC people used to ask you to come to the fountain in Stormwind to inspect your gear.
Times change but the rules stay the same…
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Ohh you are anything but average.But what do I know.
Maybe the game has only 20+ and M raiders now,in which case yeah you might be.
He has a point.
Im 3400 rio on 2 chars (top 0.1% of playerbase) and I am also 98+% pharse on all heroic bosses. However I CBA pugging last boss for hours with people who cant improve so I just bought boost for last boss whenever I needed it. Think price was like 200k gold = 10 dollars. Very good investment instead of spending hours and hours with different groups who are low level.
I feel this mostly comes down to the question of why you are playing the game. Are you playing because you enjoy playing the game, the challenge you set for yourself or just the activity itself, or are you playing because you want to “be” someone, be recognized by others as a top player and have other people notice you?
The latter will probably make for a miserable experience, because there are always people who’ll be better than you, have more stuff, or more money to buy whatever they want in the game. It’ll just deflate and exhaust you. Comparison is the killer of joy.
And almost nobody cares about what someone else has or has done. I mean, if you see 20 people with the AotC mount in Valdrakken, or someone sitting on the mailbox with the 5M dino mount, do you think “Woah, these people are so cool, I wish I was them!”? Probably not, and nobody else does, either.
Boosts and carries aren’t a new thing in the game anyway. The first time I ran into it was in TBC when my friends started doing ZA bear runs for random people, for a fee. Every AotC mount has been purchasable, carries for Challenge Modes existed in MoP and WoD, M+ carries have been a thing since the first day of M+.
So, set your own goals and feel good when you achieve them, regardless of what anyone else in the game is doing or how they are doing it. It’s just a game, even though it’s easy to forget that sometimes.
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At the end of the day there isn’t an inherent problem with a person choosing to want to do a piece of content with people who have provably already done it, especially if their goal is to complete it in a timely manner with minimal failures.
I have zero interest in the mount (don’t even know what it is). The only thing I’m interested in is the BiS gear (for many specs) that drops from Fyrakk.
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I dont think i implied there was, the point i was making is that even in Vanilla and BC groups used to inspect players gear and enchants before they would invite them to the group.
Nothing has changed in this regard its just that there are different tools to check someones suitability.
Apologies I didn’t think you were, I merely surmising / adding a point based on what you had said, didn’t mean it to come across as argumentative.
Why do you think so? Ask an advertiser in chat how many runs they do per day, and then ask another. There are more booster runs than non booster runs per day.
You can also join a boosting community and see how many requests they have per day for m+.
I love hypocrisy in this topic. “people who kill fyrak HC without boost are showing off the mount”. Yet, boosted people are using just because they really need that DF mount, for practical reasons. Just like they need those teleports from +20 to dawn of infinity. Yeah, sure 
20s are a lot easier than they were in Season 1, that’s for sure. I would never have a vault full of 20+ keys then, usually one or two options. This season has been a lot easier and instead of being around the 2700 score mark I hit 3k this time.
I do improve each season but not that significantly. Usually I just go a little over what I did before. I was very unimpressed when the weekly requirement went up to 20s initially, last season they did drop it down to +16s for vault but that was more of an afterthought. I presume Blizzard could see the stats were way down on people getting rewards. You can see that season 2 participation was much lower.
In SL I rarely ever bothered to go for the teleports. I think a friend and I pugged all of them in the fated season and completed the raid and took a nice break before next expansion, but those were the only ones I actually tried for, the rest seemed so out of reach for my level.
The people who are highly skilled players can push much much higher and they are doing great things. But you’ll never catch me in something that high, I’m never going to be that good.
You probably don’t understand the point of achievements, otherwise you wouldn’t ask that. If gladiator mount and achievement would be available in 10 minutes for 150k, do you think people would push the title? Even if they like the game?
Why I would want to kill fyrak for nothing? If I would get something nice - maybe. I don’t need gear from it, so the mount would be interesting reward, but then again, do I need that? There is no significance in having that mount at all.
Again it comes down to mean Vs median. The half way point between 0 and what’s possible and the level that the 50th percentile player is at are two very different things.
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