This is not a new trend at all unfortunately and has been present for many raids now. You can bet most of these people do actually have mics (like who wouldn't if they call themselves a gamer) but just don't wish to use them for various reasons. My guess is some don't want to put up with the prospect of anyone possibly being toxic and so they opt out of using them altogether with strangers, or some have too much anxiety idk. On the other hand, maybe some don't even know English if much at all, or are in timezones where they have other family trying to rest given the time so these folks can at least be forgiven. I have no issues generally with some who are good players and kwtd without mics as you said, and rather simply dislike those who choose not to use a mic while expecting a carry with no interest to try and learn mechanics. This happened to me yesterday on a Witness CP I joined to help out on just for fun when I long have had everything done for that raid. But nobody was speaking/using text chat nor at all kwtd besides me, so I quickly left after we wiped and I still saw nothing changing and figured I might as well have gone and soloed it myself given how poor their builds were too meaning I would be responsible for near all the DMG. To give another example, I once did a Last Wish raid with lfg before and no mics so it's definitely possible for most content as well as many others I have also done like VoG, RoN, or DSC, but things could have gone more smoothly/faster in some of these if people were just willing to speak even just a few words or use the text chat to the bare minimum (some won't even bother with the latter smh). I'm not really sure what could help fix this as it's more an issue with people themselves, it seems to me you're always going to just have some people who casually play games and whom don't try to improve at their gameplay, and won't accept anyone else telling them how to play. So I usually suggest kicking those that are inflexible like this and not pulling their weight.

Are your other 30 clan mates not available to speak with, in a raid or dungeon? Are you joining games with others as host and not leaving, knowing they don't have a mic? It's hard to even find a team at this point in the game, much less worry about a mic. I can imagine people joining your game and not having a mic as you required, but seriously.... Is it that serious? Maybe you should "get real" as well.

Only time I don't mind no mic in a raid is when it's someone in my clan that I know will still be able to help and knows the raid well enough. If its lfg they better have mic or I'm kicking I'm not taking the gamble that they know what to do.

As a novice raider I always would want mics. I wouldn't join an lfg unless they had newbies, teaching in listing and mic required. Some might be understanding but why pretend and waste peoples time by joining and have no idea. I had one guy emoting so I emoted back lol. Wasn't why he was emoting.

I was in a vog LFG once with a full pug and no comms... We got all the way to gatekeeper with not a single word between... Only two wipes at Templar and got oracles on first try and only one wipe at gorgans maze... It was amazing... So raids with matchmaking can work it's just a matter of experience and learning... No different than figuring out how to make public events heroic... Rough at first yes but once it becomes common knowledge you don't need much communication... Then after that you go and LFG and clan up for master and contest raids... It's so simple and allows any player of all skill levels a chance to raid....

I’ve noticed this too Players don’t know what’s expected from raids anymore.

Lfg is dead Most matches in pvp have at least 1 cheater or a tryhards who plays as though they may as well be cheating Onslaught/ Challenge and other pinnacle ops are damn near impossible to do within their time limits without a pre-made team, and good luck with that without lfg I personally never cared for anything in the arena ops, not that there's much reason to do them when they give the same rewards as fire team and solo ops. And now people are staying muted in activities that REQUIRE communication? At this point, they need another complete overhaul of everything. Difficulty, matchmaking, weapon stats, available missions to matchmake, this game is a joke at this point and the only people laughing are the ones on something they shouldn't be.

I think anybody should know by now that it's cheaters that post for no mic.

If you make an lfg group, you can check if all the people got mic, if not ask them to get one or kick them out. If you join an lfg group, and people don't have mic, then leave the group. It's very easy.

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Even Dungeons I believe mics should be common. A Raid with me noob squared? No way I knew what to do.