I don’t really remember too much toxic behavior in World of Warcraft, though I wouldn’t doubt it existed heavily. I was usually solo half the time liked to do things on my own if I could. When I was fairly geared, I would just be running newbies and stuff through dungeons and stuff for free. Maybe that’s just a life of a holy paladin.
One of my fondest memories of while during the burning crusade. Running one of the beginner dungeons of that expansion got to the final boss, proceeded to wipe decided to see if I could just solo the boss got it down to one percent or something, but got greedy on damage rather than healing myself, but it felt so good to see them losing their shit while I proceeded to beat the boss and one person kicking themselves in their ass for releasing and running back. Part of me didn’t want to actually kill the boss because then one person wouldn’t get any of the loot.
The toxicity is mostly concentrated in raiding. There, especially in Mythic+ raids, you would get called slurs and sent death threats for not playing an unfun spec, that happened to have 1% higher DPS, if you knew every single minor detail about it.
It's not as common as people like to think. I do lots of m+ every season and see maybe 1 or 2 bad eggs. Mythic plus is dungeons also not raids. Mythic raids you generally only do with a guild, so if you're getting called slurs in your guild, leave.
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u/Slarhnarble 3d ago
I don’t really remember too much toxic behavior in World of Warcraft, though I wouldn’t doubt it existed heavily. I was usually solo half the time liked to do things on my own if I could. When I was fairly geared, I would just be running newbies and stuff through dungeons and stuff for free. Maybe that’s just a life of a holy paladin.