What, so which is it? In one clause you say an elitist will expect failures in a PUG, and in the next you say that combat is easy and boring so they have less tolerance for mistakes. Color me confused.
Getting into the semantics behind what is and isn't an elitist is probably neither here or there, but I will point out that the mentality that content is too easy and boring to fail mechanics is exactly what leads to players lashing out at others. If you find mechanics so easy and boring, then you should probably be the first person to explain them to the person that just failed them. This leads me to your second comment.
No, it is not. The reason why this "advice" is deemed insulting by the recipient is because 90% of the time the player is being told how to play their job instead of how to avoid the mechanic itself. Mana reservation, proper rotations, efficient use of mitigative CDs... none of this has any bearing when you need to tank swap at 3+ stacks, pass a debuff to another player, or deliberately take one in order to avoid death. Also, an instance is no place for a 'how to play _____ job 101'.Giving advice with this community is the same as insulting them lol. There's been many times where I tell a healer to not only use cure2 &3 cause it'll drain their mana only for them to call me a "shit tank that pulls too much".
Again with the 'it's so easy how could you fail?" mentality. This is actually the mentality of what I personally consider an elitist. Should I point out that tanks have ridiculous HP pools and are not targeted by 80% of the game's mechanics? Should I mention mechanics that require some players to actually stay out of the stack marker, or they will die? Should I also mention you can get to 70 without ever seeing a single stack marker? If you are called a schite tank that pulls too much, have you ever considered that you might actually be a schite tank who is pulling too much? I would be hard pressed to take advice on how to play my job from someone equally less receptive on how to play theirs. Just sayin'.Here, we're "gogogogogo pull" and when people mess up it's like how? It's so easy how could you not get that? Like people that run away on stack up markers at level 70.