(06-24-2015, 08:40 PM)Intaki Wrote: 3. Unrealistic Expectations & Receiving criticism - A lot of roleplayers i've met often have (when it comes to raids) strange expectations. You're not going to down it on your first attempt - if its new content, it might even take you a month to get past the first phase. This is normal - this is called progression raiding. However what comes with progression raiding is advice and council from your team members. Don't feel offended if someone tells you the parser has shown you to be doing low dps, go at a striking dummy and research what you need to do to change things so you and your raid group can continue.This is not roleplayer specific. In my experience if you want to find a group as rife with drama queens and primadonnas as roleplaying communities, you need look no farther than the raiding communities.
This is due to the fact that both groups share quite more in common than they typically realize. Both roleplayers and raiders are extremely invested in the game and invested in proving their worth. Roleplayers are tend to be very demanding of lore knowledge and adherence, while raiders are the same way with mechanics and theorycrafting. Both roleplayers and raiders play the game in a manner that is typically very ego-centric ("My character would do this and develop like that"/"I need this piece of gear so I can be the best DD in the raid"). That's not a bad thing, necessarily, but it's just something inherent in the types of individuals that will be typically attracted to the activity.
Generalizing one group, especially when coming from a group that is fundamentally similar (if not identical), is not the best game plan.
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