This is the end.

[Jerichai]

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And what you've consistently ignored (or don't believe), was the context that may have driven the OP to tell the other Bard to mind their own business. Assuming there are some threads of truth to Boosti's statements, the other Bard started their critique by insulting him, labeling him as 'worthless' for using ballad. There's also the difference in opinion about the applicability of ballad to DRK. The other bard appears to assume Boosti is clueless about the fact that ballad has no effect on the DRK's MP with Darkside up, when it appears Boosti's did understand that and his intentions was to give the DRK the MP boost when they deactivated Darkside. let's take those elements together. Boosti now is perceiving a player who's quick to hostility, insulting his self worth, and who appears to not understand his purpose in his actions but instead label him incompetent. Yes, that doesn't mitigate the fact that Boosti was performing in a less than optimal manner, and his reaction to the Bard did not help the situation. But that goes back to an earlier statement I made: sometime people don't know what they don't know. Perhaps to Boosti, providing the MP boost seemed like a valuable utility to possibly two other members of his party. He isn't wrong in the notion that tanks and healers can provide meaningful DPS.

So let's look at it from that situation. Boosti feels like he's under attack, with everyone in the party potentially turning against him. At the same time, he feels like the other Bard is calling him out without trying to understand his purpose. In my opinion, that paints the picture of someone pushed into a corner and simply reacting badly. A behavior I think anyone can say has happened to them at least one or two times in their lives.

And it goes back to what I've been saying all along. If you see someone doing something you no is wrong or not optimal, attacking them is not the way to go about correcting it. Just going through the this, it's clear the main thing Boosti took from this experience was not how to optimize his song usage in these situations, but a feeling that the community is toxic. Even if the other Bard's intentions were to get him to play better, they failed miserably from their execution.