Quote Originally Posted by Elmeron View Post
Considering the wording of online guides, they really don't help most of the time. People write guides and make video guides in what I call, "raider terms," meaning they are not understandable to someone new to that particular MMORPG. I've seen this quite consistently in every MMO I've played and find it annoying, not to mention really ignorant to assume that your reader or viewer knows all the terms and abbreviations used in a particular guide. If you have to ask several times what the hell someone is talking about in their guide, than it's a bad guide. Guides should be understandable to all, otherwise I don't see how they can even be considered "guides."
Your assumption that everyone that doesn't understand online guides or videos are liars, is what people are talking about when they act disgusted at elitism. It's that, "I can do it this way, so everyone should be able to do it my way obviously, and if not they are liars," attitude that bugs a lot of people, including me.

I used to play RIFT and end-game was such a pain because all the online guides I found for class builds were chalk-full of words I had no understanding of. Luckily a kind player in my guild showed me in-game how skill-rotations worked, what not to do, and what to do, and guess what? I understood my class and was finally able to start end-game dungeons without a hitch. Imagine that! Players being social and helpful instead of telling one another to "Google it."
I don't care if it bugs you. I think you are lazy and selfish. You want someone to type out to you what everything means, instead of googling the abbreviation and reading what it means. Please link one video for any of the raids or dungeons FOR THIS GAME that include language or abbreviations you do not understand....You're correct, I think you are not being truthful. The videos usually tell you exactly what the name of thing the boss will cast, show you what it looks like and tells you where to move. How can that not possibly help some? even if you do not understand a word or two? Please ...it is you you who is the elitist, you expect to be carried and don't give a poop how you might be hurting the experience of others...selfish