Confessions of a Toxic Elitist

[ShinMetsu]

Nope, never had performance issues before. Not even when jumping on a new job.
And I don't know what kind of toxic behavior you displayed, but just wanted to pop in here to say

Toxic behavior has nothing to do with how you perform and neither does your performance make you a better or worse person.
(:

[akaneakki]

Anyone using all of their toolkit is a good player at eye's glance. It's the above-average/optimal players that you can't see without a parser

Yes and no. Using trick attack after everyones opener is good? Just because he use trick attack doesnt mean hes good? Tank waiting for tank busters to pop to even use cooldown when she/he can easily use one between them, depending on fight ofc. Clicking a button is 1 thing, clicking them on the right moment is another.

[SenorPatty]

Yes and no. Using trick attack after everyones opener is good? Just because he use trick attack doesnt mean hes good? Tank waiting for tank busters to pop to even use cooldown when she/he can easily use one between them, depending on fight ofc. Clicking a button is 1 thing, clicking them on the right moment is another.

You're right. I should've specified using their toolkit appropriately but I was kind of rushing my earlier post (I was commuting. It's a long story lol). I have more to say but I think I'll leave it at that.

[akaneakki]

You're right. I should've specified using their toolkit appropriately but I was kind of rushing my earlier post (I was commuting. It's a long story lol). I have more to say but I think I'll leave it at that.

No worries, while you wasn't that spesific about it, I would like to add a player who do read their tooltip is far better than those who dont .

[Estelle9lives]

First off, @Estellise, I hope you see this, and I am open to your offer. I'll look you up next time I'm logged in and send a request.

Mhm, feel free to do so! I'm usually on everyday after 6PM EST.

[zuzu-bq]

Sometimes this is true, sometimes its not. What do you classify as good player without a parser?

You can notice people's rotation by eyeing the skill they're using. If I see a BLM using Fire 2 in a dungeons I'll immediately facedesk myself. You can see BRD's effectively using Foe's, Tanks that mitigate properly and non tank stance big pulls without becoming harder to heal. Many many things. Those perfect party buff timings, good card management, you see Benediction actually being used. Stuff and more stuff.

[KisaiTenshi]

I don't see anything about dps from healer in my post. I mention a healer not using the best healing gcd in the game even near end of HW. But please go check my post again where I mention healing dps, like I said you miss the true meaning of elitist. ''Make people cut cutsceene'' doesn't make you elitist. Telling people how to play a class but they aren't even 50% at, is ignorart and elitist. Many of those things you mention are far from elitist vs being a a-hole or just very unpopular things to do/say.
But yeah I'm waiting where you pinpoint that I mentioned healer dps in my post. And why would I look at your lodestone? I have no interest in doing that, again making up things.

A toxic player would bring up anything to shut down a conversation they don't want to see, and you're still doing it. The context of those old posts were in regard to 2.0 content during 2.0.

The point is,

1. If you use a parser. You are cheating.
2. If you tell someone else to play the game your way or you suck, you're an elitist.

The game is balanced to play the way the developers intended it, and since they changed how all the combat works with 4.x that did, and no doubt still causes players to realize that the way they've been playing is not the most effective way to play. Look at all the crap thrown at the developers for the lily system when it was discovered it doesn't work with their normal minmax strategy.

[Lord_Zlatan]

op

So i started a static for this raid tier, after being out of the raid scene since 2.4. Back in those days, I was a super confident PLD and DRG.

Started up the group, and we started with some easier stuff to get into the swing of things. We had some people leave/scheduling issues, so we ended up FINALLY getting started with O5s last week...

Man o man... 29th percentile for DRG DPS on our first clear. And I had put in SO much effort into the opener/rotation/melds/dummy... it was rather jarring (and I was top DPS in the group XD).

I thought i was gunna be an uber badass. And on all other content I played, I was... but this rocked my world a bit. Made me think I was horribad, but then I thought about what I could do to improve (and dug deeper into the logs and realized since im only i354, its a bit skewed).

last night we got a clear and I was at the 43rd percentile (and havent upgraded my gear this week yet). So i feel a bit better but hot damn, alot of work needs to be done.

[Tridus]

Look at all the crap thrown at the developers for the lily system when it was discovered it doesn't work with their normal minmax strategy.

And how did that work out? Good WHM players ignore the lily system entirely. Trying to fish for lilies makes you worse as a WHM. You could remove it from the game entirely today and people wouldn't skip a beat in terms of playing the job.

The trick is that players as a collective spend far, far more time actually playing than the developers do. Developers ignore that collective experience at their peril, lest they design something like the lily system where what they intend people to do and the reality are a country mile apart. Intentions mean very little when compared to what they actually do.

Or, as programmers often lament: "The computer does what I tell it to and not what I want."

[Mahrze]

And how did that work out? Good WHM players ignore the lily system entirely. Trying to fish for lilies makes you worse as a WHM. You could remove it from the game entirely today and people wouldn't skip a beat in terms of playing the job.

The trick is that players as a collective spend far, far more time actually playing than the developers do. Developers ignore that collective experience at their peril, lest they design something like the lily system where what they intend people to do and the reality are a country mile apart. Intentions mean very little when compared to what they actually do.

Or, as programmers often lament: "The computer does what I tell it to and not what I want."

This is true, especially when they have an "identity design" behind it that they use as a way to limit themselves on what they can do.

And then, when people asked for reduced CDs on DRK, they said Reduced CDs are not always a gain

Q: The adjustment made to dark knight’s The Blackest Night ability was nice; however the effects of Dark Passenger and Shadow Wall feel low compared to the MP cost and length of the recast time. I would like to see dark knight’s defensive properties expanded.
A: Since the major adjustments to warrior, the development team has received requests to adjust dark knight.

Looking at the usage rates of each job within the tank role, we believe that the balance between them is currently quite even, so we are carefully considering how we should adjust dark knight.

Content is balanced around the recast time of buffs, so a reduction in recast time may not always lead to strengthening the job.

Dark knight is under careful consideration at the moment, so please wait a bit longer.