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I have joined many guilds ranging from the mega-united ones to the average small knit ones and more often than not, Casuals become toxic whenever I mention the topic. I understand that raids is a challenging content and more often than not, lots of people get frustrated getting wiped over and over countless times. The few that I was actually able to persuade, gave up after a few sessions. It takes a heavy toll on me both physically and psychologically to watch as the people I’ve invested countless hours into just resent me because they can’t tackle the content.
So to the Casuals that are reading this, here’s my story of how I was able to become a prolific raider. I first invested in a 300 gold Commander’s tag and started hosting VG training sessions. More often than not, the raiding community is willing to help out whether it is because of boredom or they simply want to help out. But because of the adamant decisions to ignore Meta builds (the builds that help you maximize your healing power or dps or toughness) and wanting to play the style you want for raids without comprehending the difficulty of BOTH the Raid boss and Your Profession often results in a virulent distaste towards raids. I spent 5 months practicing, refining, and learning how to become a better raider before I joined a static raid guild. During those 5 months, the furthest I’ve gotten was to Matthias. (I did not want to spoil myself so I only completed Wing 1 and 2/3 of Wing 2).
It makes me mad whenever I try to help out Casuals that they don’t bother to invest their time and effort into improving their gear or ignoring mechanics. Especially infuriating when after multiple sessions, they just give up. The raiding community is more than willing to help Casuals get into raids, but they have to put in the effort and time to learn in order to become a better gamer. Otherwise, please stop complaining about the implementation of dps meters, reducing the difficulty of raids, or any of the crying to Anet. We’re more than willing to teach and help you out if you bother to actually invest the time like we did into improving yourselves. I personally have given up on trying to persuade random guilds to tackle raids because of this, but I will still occasionally host Raid Trainings in LFG. If you are interested in it, feel free to drop me a mail in Jubilant.7280 and I will provide you with the basic knowledge in raids and might even sponsor you to help you gear yourself up.
This is my rant and my thoughts on the division between Casuals and Hardcore raiders.
This post is disgusting, as is your attitude. Raiding and people like you , has ruined, and is continuing to ruin, Guild Wars 2.
I sincerely hope you and your ilk just go away. I see now LFG groups are “REQUIRING” dps meters in order to even try raiding.
I was rather pleased to see that ArenaNet’s financials have suffered since this stupid focus on raids and Heart of Thorns has come in. I hope it continues downwards in the following quarters so they stop wasting time on this rubbish that only a small % of the player base even bothers with, but causes so much toxicity. Business’s tend to listen to money.
The game was reasonably pleasant to play up until Heart of Thorns and raiding came along, and since then it’s been nothing but awful attitudes from these people. The entire game has been infected and contorted by them and the changes to cater to them, and it’s been so negative on the community.
But hey, maybe you are right. Raiders and casuals should be kept separate – just discontinue raiding and these locusts will move on and go away. And maybe GW2 can become pleasant again.