So, I’ve spent the past two hours sitting around in queue for a GoS garden run because well, reasons I’ll touch on later, but note that it’s been two whole hours where I can do nothing gameplay wise, and not just that, there’s still no guarantee the queue will ever pop, or if it does that it will be a team that actually takes me, or speaks the same language. (I only know English.) Now, for a complaint not directly tied to just guided games, I know what to do in this raid, I’ve done every encounter enough, but because I don’t have any clears because no “skilled” players want to play with someone with no clears, I’m stuck in an annoying limbo where I either fireteam with a learning raid, and then proceed to not finish because those always fail at the final boss, or, I queue this for a place where I can get my first clear, neither works, if you don’t have access to good players to work with early into a raid’s lifespan, you never will, simply due to how elitist the community is, whilst still being terrible. I’m not naming any specific names, but I’m sure you know plenty of people like that. So, why do I say guided games are terrible? (for those that do not touch them.) Simply put, it doesn’t create the safe space in between, nor does it guarantee a raid at all, because there is almost no incentive to actually queue a guided game as a skilled player. I know I’m just whining in most of the people reading’s eyes, and I’m sorry for coming across that way, but something needs to be done about guided games. I feel like in an elitist space, or a hardcore space at least, there needs to be a decent way for people to try to either transition, or see the other side, and guided games fails to let the more casual plays actually play raids.