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I've been doing CMs+T4 for months now and this has literally never ever happened to me. Seems like a weird coincidence for you I guess. No one has ever suggested I tweak my meta scourge build or swap to a more DPSy class or anything. People just clear the content and I do the dps im roughly supposed to and then no one ever complains.

Interesting you say this, because I've always heard the opposite is true in NA. That the LFG isnt always the best of places because almost everyone uses statics in discords or whatever.

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

I had a similar experience as you OP. I heard so much bad things about Untamed and then I tried it in open world, playing through the EoD expansion and.... holy moly I loved it. In open world it is so freaking fun and strong, overall im happy with it. It's also good in PvP which seemed at the core of its design. The fact that it's not very good in Instanced content isnt an issue for me, i have SLB and Druid for it. It's poor performance in WvW is a shame though, hoped it would be the go-to ranger spec there.

Then why on earth are you scanning the forums of this game and leaving a response on a profession thread? Go do something fun mate

You must have been in a pretty remarkable situation timewise, because I've been in 2 (EU) raid training discords and they really offer a lot of trainings on a variety of different moments. There definitely IS gatekeeping in raids/strikes CMs and it can be tricky to navigate and frustrating at times but it's certainly very much possible to start raiding without a guardian angel. I came back after a 4y break a couple of months ago and learned the w5-7 raids purely through LFG with non-kp and training runs. As I said, seeing a lot of 50KP groups can be a little frustrating but it's also entirely normal to me. Experienced raiders who are about to do Dhuum for the 30th time don't want to wipe for 2h every time teaching new people the mechanics. Sometimes I join chill, non kp groups and enjoy myself but I also often don't have endless amounts of time and look for experienced groups because I just want a fast clear. In an ideal world you could just write "experienced" and only people who actually know their role well would join and you'd have high success rates but sadly people just lie to their teeth en masse and people who have no clue what they're doing join the run and fail. Only in sth like the HS discord does that really work cause there's an element of social consequences. So the alternative is risk limitation with kp. I very much disagree with the idea of raids being toxic. The gatekeeping element is present but that to me is not toxicity at all. If you dont join a 50kp group when you dont have 50kp, there is no "toxicity" at all. Generally if people feel like the run isnt going anywhere they'll leave, but rarely do people really start arguing or calling eachother names. People also falsely have the idea that if you dont bring the absolute ultimate build and dps rotation that you'll get kicked. Nothing is further from the truth. As long as you don't ge below an abslute bottom of performance, people dont care. You often see 3 scourges in a group, 1 doing 30k, 1 27k and 1 22k. The truth is that the 22k is performing quite poorly but if you dont drop below like 19k, people just dont care.

Any bugs encountered will ofcourse hamper joy, so fair enough. Overall, I really enjoyed the chapter. It was something different, sth I also enjoy in singleplayer type games and thought the mansion was really cool.

While I agree it doesn't technically constitute being P2W due to gem to gold conversion, it's a pretty major investment that's hard to harmonize with the general idea behind sPvP. It seems designed to be separate of any real character/account progression besides the Elite Specs. You can select the amulate/runes and the weapons you require can be bought for a couple of silver.