Quote Originally Posted by Afania View Post
Yes, because it's easy to label others as elitists when they give suggestions to increase performance.
Giving suggestions is one thing, calling them an outright noob for not swapping is a different thing entirely.

Now you look at someone who's not swapping gear and telling them they're doing it wrong than you yourself are 'doing it wrong' in your approach. Like for example, up to a weak ago I didn't swap into ws gear because it simply didn't exist for me. Up to that point I simply ws in my TP geap (at the time of this posting Homam Hand & feet, Mavi head, legs & body +2 plus the same accessories as Prothscar) and got some respectable numbers. My numbers are better now (and I am still missing a few pieces) but I'm not going to start shouting on non-swappers "You're doing it wrong!" unless it's readily apparent they're not even attempting to do more with less.

See the difference?


Quote Originally Posted by Afania
Whether it's reasonable or not it's still completely depending on your POV. If you think NQ is good enough, go for it. If you want best performance, do HQ. I don't see a problem to suggest HQ/more expensive items for those who wants to have better performance.
Not taking into account the cap factor, CDC has a 60% DEX modifier. That means that if you hit CDC and it would do 1000 dmg by itself, you're doing 1600 dmg due to that 1 DEX. That's a respectable increase in dmg, I'll admit but considering such things like the massive amounts of HP that LWNM possess that practically require squeezing every dmg point out it's a drop in the bucket and really not worth it.

Quote Originally Posted by Afania
Same for gear swap, if you think your performance is good without gear swap, go ahead, but there are going to be ppl disagree with you and refuse to pt with you, that's just the way it goes. Either accept that fact and don't pt with "elitists" or change the way you play, simple.
For the most part the change to gear swap hasn't changed the way I play or how effective I am at playing (neither do I forget that I'm playing a game) and elitists don't bother me any.