aS a VeTeRaN. Stop shaming new players.

Stop.

I am absolutely done with people equating new players with whining and dislike of the most recent patch, and sagely understanding of these new mechanics with this mythical veteran status.

I have had this game for years, easily have over 1000 hours of playtime, I am definitionally a veteran, and I fucking hate these changes.

I don't need to Hammer away on why I hate them, or what I hate, that's already been discussed to death. all this relevant is I've played this game of shitload for a long time and I don't like the changes.

How long I've been playing the game is not important. How many bad reactions to new mechanics I've seen is not important.

Sure we can look back and see that some people over reacted to certain changes. Who these days thinks the game is worse off because it has healing animations?

Put on the flip side there's a huge stink kicked up months ago about off raid healing, and guess what? it's still a dog shit system that doesn't add anything to the game beyond rubbing a grizzly on your body before you head into another raid (not including hydration and energy and this, because it encourages eating and drinking things you find on the spot in raid, which I like).

Maybe sometimes being a veteran means you're too in love with the game to see when it's going down a bad path.

Stop shaming new players for having opinions about the games future. Believe it or not, they aren't here because they want to turn the game into call of duty. Newcomer or oldtimer, people's opinions on the state of the game are valid, and worth consideration, however many hours are put into the game.

And you know what? That means your defence of this patch and it's new mechanics is valid too, and worthy of consideration. But your veteran status has nothing to do with it.