I do most of my organized group content through the LFG. My guild is inactive and the few that do log on tend to be on the slightly more casual side. I accept that I’ll run into low skill level groups and generally don’t mind. However, I’ve noticed that whenever I run into a 4 man premade I’m treated rather rudely almost every time. I’m honestly just posting this out of frustration, but would love to hear other peoples experiences.
So I decided to do fractals today because labyrinth was starting to feel stale. I pop open the LFG on my Reaper and decided to join a group that was looking for experienced players to do the lower end of T4 dailies. I didn’t mind the dip reward since I finished all my infinite potions and wanted to have a chill run. Unfortunately it was wrong in my assumptions.
First fractal was snowblind which was rather easy. After the icewall melted I ran towards the ice elemental per usual. However, the whole premade ran to the mistlock singularity. This was odd since I figured an experienced and organized group wouldn’t need it. Of course this usually this isn’t a problem anyways since I’m a slow kitten necro anyways and generally people who go for that singularity usually make it to the elemental fine. Unfortunately they decided to take about a 2 minute break without communicating and I’m just soloing this thing down. I get it down about 10% and they finally start moving and I read something like “ugh pug life”. I figured they’re probably talking smack about me on their discord or something, but I bite my lip and accept that the situation was slightly avoidable on my part even if they should have communicated with me.
Solid ocean is ez pz, hard to kitten this up.
For swamp I had one of those nifty guns picked up early because I assumed I wasn’t going to run since none of them moved or said anything. However, two of them run towards the return site signaling they want me to do it. I am not opposed to the idea and run to my station. When I go to pick up the orb I think my key press lagged and pressed F twice, which picked up the orb and then picked up the gun below me (honest mistake). Then I read “Wow what the hell pug why you drop orb? Stupid necro don’t shroud”. This is the last run for the day so I just stay silent like I usually do, not wanting to start a fight. They send one of their own to take my spot, they fail. I try again and get my orb in first this time. This fact calms me down a bit and I’m chill again.
So mossman blows up as mossman does and we prep for bloom. I put my waypoint down and they cover my waypoint, signaling they don’t trust me and probably talking mad kitten about me right about now. I hold myself back and just play the game. The fight was a clown fiesta. They didn’t want to kill the oakhearts and wanted to focus the boomhunger. I was fine with this as I could dodge most of what was being thrown out. Two of their members couldn’t and repeatedly went down to knockbacks and projectiles. Also during this they seemed allergic to the green pool, causing bloom to be invuln for like half the fight. Surprisingly the orb phase goes well and we finish and we finish.
Back at the mist observatory I read “oh wow, we shaved 10 minutes from yesterday”. I say thank you for the run and leave before I say stuff that’d get me banned. These guys refused to communicate with me, expected me to carry them through most of swamp, and took repeated jabs at me.
I’m fine wiping repeatedly, I understand not everyone is equally as skilled. However, I simply can’t stand jerks. I don’t know why, but I keep finding them in these premade groups that are just looking for a filling. Of course this was probably my worst experience, so I suppose the community as a whole isn’t too terrible.