Read whole post before please, before you decide to start throwing insults or snarky comments.
So, I recently came back to gw2 after pretty long break and before my break I used to do a lot of dungeons. Speedruns 95% of the time. Now that I returned, speedrunning started to feel like a job to me, rushing ahead just for that final chest/reward. I want to do some casual runs, no skipping, killing everything, because it’s fun and I get a lot of loot (don’t tell me to go to silverwaste, because this is not topic about most efficient farming or something). It really feels different for me now, if I get lucky and get good group that is, because casual run doesn’t have to mean we need to fail and wipe in every fight. It still should be smooth run, just with no skipping.
Sounds simple, yeah? Well it’s a kittening nightmare. Becuase people can’t or won’t read descriptions. I tried “READ: p2, casual run, no skipping, kill everything” for example, tried later even with caps lock. But what I get is usually:
1.) They come in and start rushing ahead. I ask them “Did you read description?” I get one of these responses:
a) Yes. (means he’s ignoring me and don’t give a kitten and hopes I won’t notice or just forget about “no skip part” and tag along with him and skipp stuff.
b) No… (bye then)
c) Yes, but why don’t we skip, it doesn’t make sense (Should I care what makes sense for you? It’s my LFG, you have tens of speedrun LFG every minute popping up and you have to choose mine “casual run” to come in and ignore my description because it doesn’t make sense to you that we don’t skip. What the kitten?)
2.) If not that, then I end up getting either people with 500 ap (which I can’t complain since I never put AP requierement in description, but still I get to see bunch of low AP people that trie4s to rush and skip stuff, which makes me sad. Had 3x 600-700 ap people in TA few days ago, that wanted to skip stuff even tho they were only once in that dungeon. How sad is that?)
And the last option is I get a guy, almighty pro kitten guy that feels like bossing everyone around, just because it’s casual run, so it must mean everyone is total noob?
So they start telling everyone how to do stuff and how to exploit evry part. (Dude, it’s kittening casual run with no skipping, what are exploits for?)
Like I said, I’m not just some casual who hates speedrunners, I know almost everything about meta, I’m also “zerk”, I like efficient runs, so I’m familiar with skipping and speedrunning. But when I was speedrunning I never joined casual run LFGs. I never joined 8k AP+ groups because I don’t meet that requirement, even tho we all know you don’t need 8k ap to do TA. I never kicked anyone because he didn’t perform perfectly. I only kicked those who deserved it like trolls and if someone was insulting others etc. If we were failing hard, I would just leave group instead of kicking. I never yelled at anyone. If I didn’t put speedrun or something similar in my lfg description, I didn’t expect of people who joined to do speedrun and to know all the pro tricks and I didn’t yell at them for stupid reasons.
Looks like skipping, rushing, exploiting is now even common feature of casual runs or people are really braindead and can’t read simple description.
This might have been better to put in dungeons subforum, but I wanted to put it here in general, because I doubt most people read dungeon subforum and this message adresses all players.
Another example for bonus facepalm: I put description that says “p2”, some guy joins and first thing he asks: “What path?”
(edited by serialkicker.5274)