How did the community become this toxic?

[Lord_Zlatan]

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it really is insane how people blame wow for everything and think that it was all rainbows and butterflies in FFXI...

Try showing up to a party (even an exp party!) with some unconventional job setups (PLD/RDM, DRK/BLU, WAR/DRK were all greeted with immediate hostility for me, and this was back in the golden days).

[Sfarzoso]

(PLD/RDM, DRK/BLU, WAR/DRK were all greeted with immediate hostility for me, and this was back in the golden days).

I don't blame them lol.

[File2ish]

Try showing up to a party with some unconventional job setups (PLD/RDM, DRK/BLU, WAR/DRK were all greeted with immediate hostility for me, and this was back in the golden days).

Yeah... I don't really blame them. PLD/RDM would only be good for Phalanx and Stoneskin really, /WHM would offer more MP and more mind along with auto-regen, while /WAR more attack, self buffs for attack and defense, and provoke. DRK already has MP based debuffs and stun so BLU wouldn't offer much to the table since /WAR or /SAM would offer much more attack (because dark knight). /DRK and /PLD were considered useless as subs since they don't offer anything significant as subjobs.

I remember joining my first Yuhtunga mandy EXP group (I started XI in like 2008)... Was RDM30/BLM10. Got IMMEDIATE hate because I hadn't leveled BLM up to at least 15 and I wanted to melee and nuke since we had a WHM in the party. Got booted from the party because I argued that we already had a main healer AND someone PLing. That group made me switch from RDM to DNC for a very long time. I didn't want to be the off heals/refresh mage, I wanted to be support/DD lol.