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(12-17-2014, 03:31 PM)Gegenji Wrote: I should note that the opposite end of the spectrum can be just as bad. People who don't bother trying to help explain how to do the fight and expecting you to do it.

I was JUST about to post something like this.  

I, on the other hand, am typically always on the nub end of the spectrum.  I've not broken too far into end-game yet, and am also not a big dungeon runner unless there's something in said dungeon I really want.  ... Typically for glamour.  *sweats*

But that said, I always inform people of this immediately.  Say hello, tell them I'm new, that I've never done this before, and that I have a spotty connection and might fall behind at times. (my literal 7 FPS average makes me wonder how the heck I even survive.) Most of the time I get 'its cool' or 'thanks for the heads up'.  And most of the time it actually goes pretty well.

But then there are the times during a fight which has specific mechanics to it, and no one explains them.  When I ask, and then nothing.  Usually it takes a wipe or two for them to start speaking up, if they do, though I've once had a tank that was so incredibly insistent on being silent, and not waiting for anyone, that he'd just run ahead and continue to die before anyone else could keep up with him.

I mean, I feel bad that I can't always keep up right with the group, but I do try my damnedest to make it clear where I stand so everyone knows.  I also listen to directions given.  What gets me is when people ignore communicating to the point where no one can move forward.  Or where everyone just gives up before the final boss due to not listening to the directions given.  When I, the total nub with the unfortunate movespeed of a slug in comparison, have to pick up their slack (if I even can) it's a pretty sad day.