Am I being elitist? Honest question.

[Kuroyasha]

The persons knowledge / experience aside, would you like to be told you're "on story mode level"? Personally I'd rather choose a less insulting approach, since this players owes me nothing and has not intentionally done anything to upset or offend me. Positive encouragement is more effective than riddicule, but then there are some more interested in the spiteful satisfaction of putting others down rather than actually contributing their advice in an effective way.

EDIT: not implying anything about the situation in the original post, but rather Kuro's idea of fair play.

I'm sorry, but when did i say that I would say to them that their skills are on story mode level? i said that's what their gameplay would tell me. Not the same. You are assuming/reading what you want to see instead of what is actually written. Them showing me their skills are story-mode does not equate to me saying that to them versus just giving them tips on getting better after an observation. Come on now. Stop being so sensitive.

You're iimplying that people who've reached lvl 50 on Story Mode don't know to play and that skills at that level are irrelevant. You do know that right?

I'm implying that a smn who doesnt place a pet or use shadow flare on titan extreme has story-mode skills.As in one can easily beat story mode,especially today, w/o being anywhere close to being skilled enough for extremes or doing those two things, which should be obvious to see. Knowing how to play FFXIV enough to beat story mode doesnt equal knowing how play a job effectively to beat the hardest content or, obviously what seems to be a major roadblock to many, titan extreme, which you seem to imply. Now if some look up rotations to maximize output once they reach 50 and practice that throughout their progression into extremes then great.

However, it's obvious that smn did not, so they had story-mode skills, as in they displayed skills of what one would expect of someone who just reached 50 and beat the story. As they take advice, and put it into practice, that skill will improve. That FC leader should've thanked the OP for pointing out those glaring flaws, yes they are glaring, and making the smn a little better, as the smn did himself. OP's suggestion to the smn may encourage him to look up more tips on dps and reach a high level, which is good.

I stand by what i originally said though (not what people want to put in my mouth). If you've only beaten story-mode then you have story-mode skills. if you're on titan ex and you're doing things that hamper your dps that should've been corrected on hard-modes, then you still have relatively low skills/story-mode skills. Seeing that someone has low skills at a point in time doesn't mean i wont give tips to get better, or that i will do it in a condescending way. And I'm sorry but if someone told me they have skills b/c they beat story mode....then yes....i would think those skills are irrelevant.