it’s simple really. don’t skip mobs. i know, i know. that’s the uber-leet thing to do, or whatever ridiculous saying anyone wants to use, except…… it’s really not. it’s just flat out laziness with a spin george stephanopoulos would envy coming up with. do dungeons to…… do the dungeons. not to skip them, and then act as though that makes your more skilled than anyone else. it doesn’t. in fact, it makes you a liability. why? because if you HAVE to fight something, you have no clue how to because you’ve spent all your time running past it.
it doesn’t save time, and is completely unnecessary in order to get the loot you’re after. in fact, you actually get LESS loot by bypassing the dungeon. hell, i’ve actually seen people asking if we could skip entire bosses. i’ve never been booted from a group, but i have left a few, and have booted a few people myself because i was dealing with these types of “players”. yes, i put players in quotations, because they’re not. they’re children who only care about instant gratification, even if their imbecilic approach causes it to take longer, and end up as a complete disaster.
and to start combat before all of your members are there is just plain stupid and rude. all four of the people in your party should be embarrassed by how much ignorance was put on display. when you join a party, you become part of a team. something that requires (gasp!) teamwork. yep, you actually have to work together to give your team the best chance for success. failing to do so will, and should, result in failure.
simply put, your group did a terrible job, approached things poorly, were ridiculously shortsighted and completely lazy, and just plain didn’t deserve any rewards from the dungeon whatsoever. and now you’re here making whining thread about it. and when someone tries to explain where you went wrong, you’ve tried to justify it, or push the fault onto the community itself. sorry to say, it ain’t everyone else fault. because i know how this scenario goes. someone joins a party, says " are we skipping things or doing it all? i’m ok with either" they get told that the plan is to do the whole thing, then said person nags at EVERY single encounter to skip it, and need to be told “no, scooter, we’re actually going to DO this dungeon” time and time again. and guess what? said person ends up being a corpse most of the time, because as it turns out, they’re absolutely WORTHLESS in the dungeon they’re trying to farm. (and are usually running a glass cannon melee build, because OMG BIG NUMBER!!! yes, number. singular, because they’re dead after their first attack.)
so, who’s at fault here? anet? nope. the party system? nope. the mesmer? nope. the community itself? nope. want a hint? look in the mirror. can’t accept that? play a panda. want to try to justify it? doesn’t change anything. want to actually be worth something in a dungeon? actually do the dungeon. want to make a whine thread about it? you really don’t want to know my answer to this one. don’t like it? too bad.
