Catch up dungeons were added in Wrath Classic, and they had actual mechanics added to them as well as HP boosts. Cataclysm catch up mechanics are literally just bigger numbers and my god I have never seen so many kick votes or been kicked as many times in the past couple of weeks of my return as Elemental Dungeons.
Elemental dungeons are literally just bigger numbers and are not even difficult, but god forbid you try to use it as a catch up.
- Join at 346 GS, the requirement, pretty much instant kick.
- Have decent gear but someone has better and is showing you up, high chance of kick.
- People just toxic and start pointless arguments, they will try (and often succeed) to kick you.
- Reason for kick is often left blank and it still passes, even when there is no obvious reason.
- Make a mistake, even if it’s a small one, high chance to kick.
- Someone get’s kicked for no apparent reason, you ask why, high chance of kick.
This might seem like a dramatization but when an apparently “High” population server (Gehennas) is just filled GDKP Spam, WTS Valor Wrists and no one talking in General I cannot feel like the game is now just not meant for people trying to have an at least half pleasant experience, and is just filled with either Bots or people who have 0 social skills, and tbh that shows in the amount of kicks that happens in Elemental dungeons.
TLDR - Cata Classic feels super toxic. High majority of people cannot handle the fact of what a catch up mechanic is. Vote kick has never been used so much in the history of WoW.
I won’t be replying to anyone on this post, it is not a discussion it is a fact. I expect to receive a lot of hate form the same poeple who treat others like dog s*** in game. Cataclysm WoW is too toxic for me and will be uninstalling as a dungeon enjoyer.
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I agree. Dungeons in general are like running with bots. I get it that people wanna rush things and just go after the loot, but when you ask a question and people just plain ignore you (while you’re being a tank) then it’s pretty odd. And then you end up doing Inferno’s… as a warrior tank. Yeah, a prot warrior 
I was once kicked from Grim Batol when we wiped on the last boss, because dps didn’t kill the adds. So far we had smooth run (well, kinda slow dps but smooth none the less and no wipes). My warrior tank is running with 364 ilvl, but of course it’s not nearly enough for Infernos, apparently, because even when the whole dungeon was going well and healer never ran oom before last boss and the whole wipe happened because dps guys weren’t focusing the adds, I, as a tank, got kicked from the group and when I politely (no sarcasm) asked from one of the guys why was I removed, the answer was “I need to get more gear”…
Yup, tank needs more gear when dps doesn’t do their job and if I’m running as a prot warrior, I do require some more attention from the healer than something like BDK, and to be fair, the healer wasn’t really all that amazing, but never the less, blame the warrior tank for everything 
This is the current state of players. Nobody bothers to say simple “Hi” at the start and nobody answers to any questions (like if it was ok to kill squid boss in Throne of Tides, because it doesn’t take THAT long, but it was just completely ignored and people just ran right to the left).
Best bet is to be in guild group. At least there you can see random “hi” sometimes.
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i was in shadowfang keep once, we wiped on commander springvale because i was the only one interrupting and directly attacking the adds, (i checked details!, the boss healed for 6+ million HP), our healer went oom, i went oom way before the healer…i link the ability in chat and i say we need to interrupt, seconds later i got kicked because i was the lowest dps even tho i was the only one who played it correctly. i ignored all of them even tho it takes 3 to kick, never had an issue since then, deranged ppl exist everywhere
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