So the raid finder is out now for a couple of week and people farm it every day.
I really found that the raidfinder was a good addition but when I realised how the mechanics were butchered I felt like this is not right. Dragon Tears and T4 relics drop in masses (and still some people are complaining about crappy loot... Dragon Tear from T3 raid lol), I got enough on 3 characters to gear them pretty well (like enough for 1 big T4 piece or 1 or 2 small ones) and I only farmed T3 raid finder raids for the pet (which I did not got on the character that needed it, my characters have T4 gear already... only my DT not and this char got the snake pet 3 times <3). Other people who farmed far longer than me probably got enough to buy a half T4 set. And there is the problem:
In the last few days I talked to people who wanted to know (for example) which faction they should join with their character, I found out that they did not know almost anything about khitai at all but when I saw their gear I was like "wtf?!". They had T4 pieces (big ones and small ones) paired with blue crap gear, the one DT I met even had T5 pieces from item shop caches...
These people now have end game gear (well, T4 is no real end game gear anymore) and don't know the basics of khitai and sometimes not even the basics of their class. One ToS in a unchained group did not buff up, only used Lightning Strike and not a single heal but still had T4 items paired with blue crap gear again.
I totally agreed with the idea to get more people into raiding but the raid finder right now is creating people who have no clue about anything in the game and think they are doing right because they got rewarded very well.
Did you guys see players like this too? These few I had were already too many in my opinion...
Just saying: I have nothing against new players (why the hell would I?! AoC needs more players badly...) and answering their questions (even if they are some kind of "noob question" for veteran players), helping them doing a quest and things like that, actually right now where I am not in a raid force I do this stuff 90% of the time in game... But the fact that there are now people with very good end game gear who don't even know how to join a faction is really bad... not only for groups these players join (because most of them think the normal raids work like the raid finder raids) but also for themself because a lot of people here are not as nice as I am all the time, they just get kicked and blocked without even knowing what they did wrong.