Just feel like the raiding community the Mythic+ community this expansion is just pure toxic and almost alienating and speak to you like you’re not even human at times.
Maybe I’m wrong maybe I’ve just experienced bad guilds or players but its truly put a dent in my enjoyment of this game, I’ll probably stay subbed to engage on the forums.
Maybe attitudes will change in the new expansion, we will see.
I hope everyone else has had a better experience, I really enjoy watching and hearing people be happy, I also don’t hate the game I actually really love warcraft as a whole but as they say sometimes things can put you off, Sorry about my really low mood posts recently I’ll make sure the next ones are more fun.
I ran a guild for 7 years that tried to balance looking after people and raiding progress (developing them, working as a team, not treating them as a commodity etc) but burnt out after 7 years.
I worked through a couple of guilds in the years since then in an attempt to raid and there are a LOT of bad ones out there. I don’t mean in terms of progress, but they are just not nice places to be.
There are lots of good, decent and helpful ppl about, you just need to find them. The douches are a lot easier to happen across (they’ve got their recruitment patter more practiced because of the revolving door).
You’re probably right Dejarous, I joined that discord last night as you suggested but its quite overwhelming and I do find it difficult to socially engage with people, may sound silly but having anxiety and also being Scottish and talking to people in VCs doesn’t mix well with me as it usually entails people mocking my accent its only funny until its a common interaction.
Though maybe I should just chance it, I just get a bit lost in these discords sorta feel like a bit of a ghost, Though I want to thank you on the recent support you’ve been offering it means a lot.
Unfortunately it is an amazingly wonderful accent that one notices rightaway, I can imagine it gets tiresome tho!
I have no advice, I understand your feelings on it. For me it simply meant enjoying the game solo and being very happy and content that way. There are lovely people playing this game, they must be somewhere. I hope you’ll find them, grouped content is a 1000 times more fun with awesome people
I cant make toxic people disapear, but i can at-least console you by explaining why your being treated like that.
You are not the first returning player with that issue. You have to understand that the very soul of this game is: Friends List and Discord. When you left you lost it. Now you have to build it back and it takes a few fails to achieve.
I feel I can relate to this so much. I have mostly played with my partner or others who I know IRL. But these days I play solo mostly since my partner has lost interest in the game. I started looking around a couple of days ago to find a community that raids, but I myself suffer anxiety. I got my ilvl up, got enchants, some flasks, and fully intended to go into LFR to at least learn the boss encounters available there… But I ended up closing the raid finder and went fishing to collect ingredients for buff food. xD
I also joined No Pressure discord, but it -is- overwhelming when having been gone from the game, -and- from group activities and players you once played with. I was in a community back in BfA together with my partner, and we did some normal raiding then, which really was fun. I do enjoy it, but I am very reserved in bigger groups.
I would be willing to bet there are many, many people out there who would love to do raiding and m+, or even join these communities, but somehow stumble to get across the threshold. Somehow it is a comfort though to see I am not alone. Neither are you.
I joined one a while back and didn’t feel any pressure to be really social, join the discord or use VC. I think it may have been Scared of Dungeons. I much prefer typing. Just take it at your own pace.
Read through most of the posts in this thread; suffice to say, it is mostly bad advice.
I’ll help you out.
I’ve only noticed this in the MMO genre; people making concerted efforts to make friends to raid with; are people who take themselves way too seriously, or they are extremely naive.
Most people who play video games, play like me: I play video games to on people.
The Raiding and Mythic+ community speaks to you like you’re not even human at times; is them ing on you.
You’re putting the onus on them when it’s you that needs to change.
You have to start ing on people, trust me, you will feel better.
Eh, I’m English and I live in Scotland, I live it everyday!
Just embrace it, or mock them back. Swedes are my fav’s for this. They all pronouce J’s a Y’s. We had a Swede that used to make raid calls “Yump now!” etc. We teased him so much he named a character yumping. It’s not people being mean, its an ice breaker.
that is correct and you’ll see many people disagreeing with you here but don’t get disheartened by that , you’re telling the truth here and it’s not about you
thanks a lot guys for all the advice even if some of it I may disagree with such as being sensitive I’ll learn from it all and try and maybe change my mental too.
My Bnet is Lumbo#21335 and my name is Alex, Sorry if my post made some eyes roll, I just find people are quicker to rip you down than give you a helping hand to grow at most times.
In every game you will face toxicity. Report= delete person’s msg and ignore it, you don’t even have to read it, its up to you.
If you feel like you are doing something wrong you can always just practice etc, it’s just a game, remember to ignore/ report if someone is abusing chat and that’s it.
I don’t mean to sound rude but your experience doesn’t reflect others experiences, The game used to be a lot more open and friendly and that has changed drastically in my view.
But I’m glad your experiences have been better than mine.
That is a shame, I think that the Scottish accent sounds so cool.
I wish I had managed to learn it myself during my 6 years in Scotland. In its more exaggerated forms it is one of the better accents for roleplaying in fantasy settings.
I’ve been playing since vanilla, I’ve done more dungeons through the games lifetime than I care to count. People in general have never been particularly chatty nor flamey in dungeon runs. There’s a few people that might be chatty or flamey but they’re far and few between when compared to the masses of “hi” & “thx for run bb”.
I do get compliments at times but mainly mocking which causes my anxiety to raise when even joining voice chats so I try to sit in silence or when I do speak I get the Omg I don’t even understand anything you say lmao “In a mocking tone.”
Sucks to say the least, I get people might say I need to lighten up on it but when its literally day in and day out you need to kind of put yourself in my shoes to understand it if you get me,
on people.
