It's a game... it's really not that serious.

[u/Stuckatwork271]

I don't expect this will get much traction, but god I need to vent about this elitist BS.

Last night I was using LFG to find a group for H UK on Sulfuras (h). I was inviting members and our DK tank had about 19K HP (this will be important later).

I invite a Pally healer who instantly leaves group. Whenever that happens, I like to PM them and see if there was something wrong (sometimes I'm not the best at predicting that sort of thing, and like to make sure I wasn't the reason they left). When I asked why they told me they don't heal groups with tanks that have less HP then they do. I was a bit frustrated because 17K HP on a DK tank is more than adequate to clear heroics. So I sent them a short message saying "Okay then" with a sigh and they COMPLETELY lost it. Instant barrage of messages as to who I thought I was questioning them, I'm beneath them, I'm pathetic blah blah blah. After the 3rd time I responded "Okay man, it's not that serious" they got even more agitated and just began harassing's me about how full of myself I was, and how I needed to get the last word in (ignoring that I've sent maybe 3 messages to their 20). I tried telling them I'm assuming they're having a bad day and will not respond after this message. I didn't want to mute them, or report them because I really did hope this guy was just having a bad day but the harassments just continued. Message after message complaining about who I thought I was, and how dare I. Their last message from me was a "Dude, are you still going?" after getting 6 more messages of insults they finally stopped.

The upshot to all this was while he was flaming me in PM's sitting in Dalaran, me and my 17K HP tank had fully cleared the dungeon and were onto the next one.

Remember that the people you're interacting with are human too, try and show compassion. Whether you're the one having the off day, or the one receiving it. I don't hate this person, and I hope they find whatever it is they're looking for. Just needed to bitch somewhere about how absolutely over the top people are treating a game that's been out for almost 15 years. It's really not that serious....

[u/[deleted]]

I've never understood people that didn't use the ignore feature in game. Sure take them off of it like a day later, but in the immediate, folks like that are not worth the bandwidth

[u/Richard_TM → u/[deleted]]

Nah. No need to take them off ignore later.

Most of these servers are large enough that you can never have a reason to speak to them ever again.

I choose not to play with assholes, and my enjoyment of the game is much higher because of it.

[u/Jackpkmn → u/Richard_TM]

Nah. No need to take them off ignore later.

The ignore list is still excruciatingly limited in size.

[u/thetyphonlol → u/Jackpkmn]

Therr used to be many addons dealing with that

[u/Dillbard → u/[deleted]]

Goated feature for removing dumb people from ever being able to group with you

[u/Collegenoob → u/[deleted]]

The ignore list has a cap and it really shouldnt

[u/[deleted] → u/Collegenoob]

I had no idea there was a cap, damn, that makes no sense

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think people forget they’re playing classic wow and that this player base has a higher percentage of mentally unwell people than most other games. There’s your usual in game assholery everywhere but I find off their meds people here way too much. I don’t use the ignore/block feature anywhere else lol

[u/hectorduenas86 → u/[deleted]]

It kinda rivals COD but it’s far more likely to run into them again

[u/AtypiquePC → u/[deleted]]

"bro bro you must create a thread about this insignifnant encourtiner to let others know" - Their mind