(08-05-2015, 11:56 AM)Pepe Wrote: It's 100% reasonable to expect someone who joins a team to expend the bare minimum of effort to carry their weight on the team in this game. If you are pulling Crystal Tower levels of DPS at max level content, you are the asshole. If you have an expectation that strangers should take time out of their day to teach you your class when it's easy as shit to just google up one of the very helpful guides that nice people wrote for everyone, you are the fucking asshole here.Pretty much this.
Very few people expect anyone to deal savage level DPS in a dungeon. People who post threads like the one you linked just want you to carry your weight.
Barring skilled techniques and tricks, the game pretty much holds your hand in terms of teaching you how to play your job adequately, though the system itself, and via other players. I do not expect Savage-tier raiders in every DF Expert Roulette I run. I do not mind helping people with any questions they may have about their job. I have no issue pointing people in the right direction when it comes to playing the best that they can. However, I do not join an Expert Roulette so I, a WHM, have to do over half of the damage of two DPS so we can finish the run in just under an hour.
No one expects greatness, and if they do, they are an asshole. And yet, by failing to perform at even a mediocre level, so too are you. In a subscription based MMO, time is money, and players that cannot do even 1/5 of what they are required to waste not only their own time and money, but that of others.
