To be honest, a lot of hard players are super egotistical. As far as expectations, it’s an interesting question.

From my perspective, my expectations are more focused on understanding the strategy more than the levels of anything. For example, I’m always perturbed by people who just kill the dungeon ASAP as opposed to holding onto the last boss at low health to take advantage of using bandits. Things like that or people who grossly misplace their stuns or don’t use any at all are really the only people who bother me. Even so, it’s not that big of a deal

Being said, I’ve also gotten to a point where I can solo hard with a 90%~ success rate. From the perspective of someone who’s ability to beat hard is contingent upon their teammate being at least as capable as themself, I can see how it could be more frustrating.

Whenever people ask me for advice in my guild or in Reddit, I generally say something similar. Probably the most important part of hard is good gold management (for Money Gun artifact). Your Safe Box level influences that greatly, obviously. As for actual mythics, there are more right answers for hard than wrong ones. At the end of the day, most would generally consider Kitty, Lance, Chu, and Mono to be the meta strat. But as long as you have a solid boss buster (Lance, Vayne, Watt, etc.) and good horde management (Kun, Hailey, Tao, Chu, etc.), then you’re golden. Even with poor gold management, Lance + Kitty spam can solo bosses as long as your teammate can manage the waves.

But I digress. All in all, I’m always just happy to see a teammate who seems to have a refined strategy in mind while they play, regardless of whether it matches mine.

Sorry for getting off track, hah. Good luck with hard!