Quote Originally Posted by Worm View Post
Elitists have to be part of an actual elite.
Utterly incorrect. An elitist is almost by definition not part of the Elite. An elite group *is* elite because they are actually the best at something, otherwise they could not be elite. An Elitist is someone who sets themself above others regardless of their own actual or apparent skill. An elitist not only makes a distinction between varying levels of skill (or whatever) but they also discriminate based on that. The elitist will discriminate against others placing themself above others on whatever basis for discrimination they have chose as the basis for their elitist attitude.

An elitist does not need to be an elite player or elite in any way at all to be elitist. Yiou could be the worst player in the game, but gil from RMTs, purchase BiS gear and runs through various content with that gil to obtain all the shinies, and be the most elitist jerk on the server. In fact you'd have to be one of the more elitist people if you did that since you'd need to surround yourself with over geared people in order to do anything without purchasing a carry.