Confessions of a Toxic Elitist

[KaldeaSahaline]

Has anybody here dealt with something related to this? Like, you think you're good at your job, and then something - whether it be friends, FC mates, your own logs, etc. - shows you that you're not even close to the average baseline? Or has shaken in the game done something to truly shake your confidence, to the point that you strongly considered dropping your sub?

1) I like your threads. Regardless of good/bad, people come to them to have some actual discussions. I like discussions. Makes slow work days less slow.

2) Your logs aren't flattering, but the good news is that you can use that to improve. 9th percentile without dying means you're not active or staggeringly undergeared (likely both). Looking at your train log, you have lower CPM than I do, as a melee tank with a 2.43 GCD and you guys did the skip. That's a clear issue. You need to ALWAYS (A) BE (B) CASTING (C).

Most poor DPS players don't understand this.

3) Contrary to popular belief most "elitists" are ACTUALLY people in your situation. Not you specifically (because I don't think you fit the bill based on previous discussions), but it's usually some really bad player who thinks he knows what he is talking about. The amount of times I've been given "tips" by 9th percentile tanks in Savage who only have cleared O5S, meanwhile I'm working enrage on God Kefka.

If what he said was actually viable valid advice, but telling me to hide behind the remorse ghost box and yelling at me saying I don't know what I'm doing when I have TW for every knockback... Or the same guy asking me why didn't you pop FoF on the chimney? OR YET AGAIN the same guy yelling at me to kite the ghost (I didn't need too, by time it got to me, it'd be cleared by the saintly light.) Then when the fending stuff drops (I didn't actually need any of it), he goes awful PLD, hope he doesn't get the loot and I'm sitting here just rolling my eyes.

Yes and no - I main a tank, a paladin even, which meant til SB you were basically told: "Your class is not capable of dealing damage anyways", so I honestly never cared about FFlogs or seeing my numbers or anything like that. Its slowly changing now, but as tank I also take into consideration that there is more for me to do than just deal damage, so I dont sweat about my dps-numbers that much, as long as I know that I did the best I could, tried to improve and performed my main-job well (holding aggro, positioning the boss well, mitigation).

DPS is one of your main responsibilities. It is equally as vital as holding threat, positioning mobs, and using your defensive utility. Using cooldowns is nothing more than a single binary button press at a specific time and requires exceptionally little thought. Threat is trivially passive, unless you're optimizing DPS and as far as positioning goes, it's largely irrelevant in current encounter design, save for some savage fights, which your logs do not indicate you participate in.

You know how popular opinion is that Susano Ex is one of the easiest Ex primals ever put into the game? Yeah. That guy threw me around like I was a rag doll. I showed up thinking I knew what I was doing because I was a progression raider when I played WoW and this game is way easier than WoW, right? He had a different opinion than I did, as it turned out...

You know I didn't think Susano was the easiest primal ever put in the game either. Lakshmi? Sure. Sophia? Sure? Ifrit EX (if you're not a healer? Sure). Maybe I'm bad at geometry but it took me like 5 pulls to finally figure out the lightning cloud mechanic (blind day 1). Normally stuff like that is 1-2 pulls tops for me (and I'm actually a VERY slow learner compared to people of equal skill).

I too am getting old I really wanted to do UCoB, but I just can't justify learning an 18 minute fight. I'm not 18 anymore and don't have the time needed and my core group of friends who would make that easily learn-able within a casual timeframe (all previous top raiders in WoW) won't try FF14 except my brother lol.

Nobody ever uploads my runs to FFlogs so my sample size is so small its irrelevant. this is why I hide my logs atm.

You sure that's why?

*This is a playful rib

[Vidu]

DPS is one of your main responsibilities. It is equally as vital as holding threat, positioning mobs, and using your defensive utility. Using cooldowns is nothing more than a single binary button press at a specific time and requires exceptionally little thought. Threat is trivially passive, unless you're optimizing DPS and as far as positioning goes, it's largely irrelevant in current encounter design, save for some savage fights, which your logs do not indicate you participate in.

I wrote that before hading out to work, so maybe I didnt made that clear enough: I am totally aware that DPS is one of my main responsibilities and I'm trying to push that as much as I can. The reason my logs dont indicate that I'm participating in Savage fights is because my group isnt uploading them, since we dont care about that as long as we clear our content, we're happy. We - or at least I - have no desire to share my numbers with anyone. Not because they're bad just because I wouldnt want to go through the hassle of uploading stuff etc.
No worries, I know how to do my job, I do it well - even if you cant see that by checking numbers on a website