Poor whale, finally feels what it’s like to be gatekept.
The 50/50 you are feeling is the 1/20 chance that a well-built free player who is 4x3+1 has to get into any group.
Sorry you have to experience the same thing your own community enforces on any player who doesn’t buy RMT.
I always gatekeep new classes, because
They are new at the class and have no idea what they are doing
They are whales who swiped their way into high end raids. They will gatekeep all free players once they lead their own parties.
I joined a hard Valtan with my 3x3 support two days ago, led by a 5x3 Reaper. He accepted me but started talking trash about 3x3 after the match started. He died in gate 1. As anyone would do, I stood on his body pinging and talking trash until we wiped and reformed.
I cannot emphasize enough how much doing guild runs helps this. Even your worst guild run with people screwing up nonstop is a better experience than your middling pug run. Find a group of people with a similar mindset and just be okay with not being 100% efficient time wise. You’ll quickly find the enjoyment factor outweighs most other issues.
Try it from a diffirent perspective. Login to your bard and create a group for a legion raid yourself. The application window will be full less than a minute. Then you gotta decide which 3 you want to take with you and deny 7 for lets say clown. It’s not easy to create groups as well, you need to deny or let them wait forever or till its full.
I’m not the one who constantly has the comparison in front of him so don’t be really. You’re the one who knows both sides of the coin. My experience is pretty linear
Not disbelieving you or anything, but could you post images of your 5x3 reaper? gear/ roster lv, engravings, cards, gems? I’m very curious to see what everything looks like that’s being denied so much