This whole Meta Party thing is hurting me. x_x

[Trensharo]

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You're policing it by demonizing it. Telling people it's awful (i.e. "it creates toxicity," calling them "ignorant," etc.) is a tactic used to change their behavior. That's actually toxic and bigoted.

"Toxicity" is one of those new FAD words used to label everything people don't like - usually by people being "toxic" - even if those actions are perfectly okay. Disagreeing with something doesn't make it bad by default. META is not bad, per se. It's just inconvenient to people who choose to play classes not in the current META. That's all.

People tend to "want" to be benevolent. Your tactic exploits that, and is used to police others' behavior by labeling behaviors that are okay - but you disagree with - as bad, and then conflating it to seem like the entire community disagrees with it. We actually do this to teach our kids how to behave, so it has some utility - but most of us aren't kids. We don't need this, or want it.

They're saving time and increasing their fun factor in the game. You just don't like it, because you picked a class to play that doesn't get the preferential treatment. Boo. Hoo...

Meta means a group composition that is more efficient or effective than others.

That's all it means. That a group built around good P.DPS classes that can debuff P.VULN is more effective than if you took a P.DPS and replaced it with an M.DPS.

The community isn't being irresponsible. They just know basic arithmetic. Stop acting like you don't (or... do you?).

Not wanting your Black Mage because their "Meta Setup" performs better (statistically speaking - we shouldn't care about outliers or anecdotes) is not toxic.

It's common mathematical sense. The math agrees with them, not you.

It's not their fault that they take these things a bit more serious than you do. They don't pay a subscription or play the game just to make you feel good about the choice you've made in it.