Hi,
Seeing al the threads on the forums about how rude and abusive players can be, I felt the need to share this with you:
Recently I started a new character with a friend of mine who is new to WoW. He tried DPS and at one point he asked me if he could make a tank because DPSing was a bit boring to him in dungeons.
He made a tank and I thought this was a good moment for me to roll my first healer. So we did and as soon as we hit 15 we went LFD. Since this all being pretty new to him, he had a few problems building and keeping aggro, especially with people wearing full heirloomgear in the group. Ofcourse we wiped more then once, actually in one dungeon (I forgot which one) we wiped about 5 times, mainly due to aggro problems and my inability to heal against everybody getting damaged a lot since I am new to healing and still learning as well.
Here comes the surprising part: Nobody in all these groups we were in raged at us for wiping. Nobody! Even better, most players were extremely understanding and helpfull and gave us tips on how to improve and none of them left even after multiple wipes.
I have seen a lot of abuse in dungeons and LFR over the years I have been playing and I must say that this was a very refreshing and nice experience.
I want to say thanks to those players and this proves to me that the community is not as rotten as a lot of people think.
Just my two cents.
Alas, this is human nature. :-) The average human being remembers negative things more strongly and in greater detail than positive things, and I believe that it has been suggested that this is actually an evolutionary trait that helps us avoiding threats and other undesirable situations. It is known that negative memories are more prone to shape opinion than positive memories, which means that bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form for most people than good ones. This also means that it is easy to jump to conclusions and create the perception that something it is bad, which can then result in great surprise later on if that perception is then proven to be inaccurate. |