Guild Wars 2

I would say Bugs & trolls

@OP: we don’t have time to bother with inexperienced, and at the same time ignorant players (those, who come unprepared, unwilling to learn or listen, yet demand something of us). For us, dungeons have long ceased to be interesting and fun as they are, and our definition of fun in dungeons is running them as fast and as effectively as possible. It thrills me to take 80% of Malrona’s HP with a well timed feedback on my mesmer, a smile spreads on my face when I see a 25k backstab pop up, I feel genuinely happy when I melee mossman on fractal difficulty lvl 50 with my d/d meta glass cannon thief and don’t die (at least not too much xD). None of that is possible when I party with soldier warriors who use rifle at max range, never ress teammates or never run banners as a principle and get offended when I tell them how to play.

I am a co-leader in a guild of 450 members all of whom are required to represent at all times, which makes for a pretty active and fairly large community. I have had to explain dungeon strategies and meta builds to people countless times as I just couldn’t refuse the party join request from a guildie when I asked for a mesmer for SE path 3 and instead a WvW condimancer has joined. (Let me use this chance to thank all the awesome dungeon community people posting guides, builds and resources to make life easier for us normal folks). In fact, I’ve had to explain those things so often, that I had to write them down and make them into a post on the guild forums.

Simply said, I have neither time, nor energy (student working a full time job) to waste on a random player who isn’t even from my own guild, to explain to them why they should be running the meta build, what the meta build is and then proceed to explain dungeon specific mechanics without as much as a VoIP app., when there’s a myriad of top-quality videos, guides and builds on the internet that would turn them from total newbs into decently prepared players (when those guides and videos can explain it many times better than I can with nothing but in-game chat).

Although I personally don’t agree with using AP as a metric for skill (even though I myself have over 11k), there is no tool available in this game to guide the shaping of your group through LFG, so that you end up with what you were looking for. Not a single time have I had the party I have asked for in LFG on the first try. Since our community lacks the intelligence not to join parties restricted in their description on LFG, the small dungeon running community resorts to using whatever means possible to assure that they get what they asked for (be it gear check, AP or whatever they can use)