Is it me or has the community gotten worse...

[LittleImp]

75% of the Elitist/Toxic ppl in this game are Raiders who for some reason think just because they can follow a step by step instruction from a guide and clear "Hard content" with the help of 3rd Party Apps suddenly gives them the right to look down on the rest of the playerbase.

The remaining 25% are the Mentors, most who raid themselves, seems to offer more criticisms instead of actually providing good sound advice.

The Raider's think so highly of themselves, they blatantly sell Ex Trial/Savage wins for Paypal transfers on the Party finder everyday lol.

Because arbitrarily demonizing people isn't toxic :eyeroll:.

As someone who pugs EX and Savage on a nearly daily basis, my personal experience is pretty much the exact opposite. I've encountered significantly MORE toxicity in casual content from casual players.

Edit: Holy crap just saw your post history. Thanks for being a living example for me hon. xD

[Gula]

Maybe you should try to spell that correctly first before you try to launch an insult lol.

Attacking spelling isn't an argument.

[RyuDragnier]

Maybe you should try to spell that correctly first before you try to launch an insult lol.

You're proving his point.

[RareItems]

Because arbitrarily demonizing people isn't toxic :eyeroll:.

As someone who pugs EX and Savage on a nearly daily basis, my personal experience is pretty much the exact opposite. I've encountered significantly MORE toxicity in casual content from casual players.

Edit: Holy crap just saw your post history. Thanks for being a living example for me hon. xD

And here comes the Raiders coming out of the woodwork lol. Like i said, if you mention "Tenacity is a good melding option for Tanks", these guys will start attacking you left and right xD. Bye, Daily Post limit is happening, i want to save some for later xD.

[Metalwrath]

I am aware . However what I was referring to was not the posts but who the OP and of course posters of other threads were encountering in game.

It could also simply be that the OP is running into kids fueled by white castle and red bull at 2 am since I rarely run into extremely rude behavior during my playtime. Being old and needing to go to bed at 9pm has its advantages i suppose.

And that still doesnt make sense.First of all its not like people are immediatly rushing to the forums after they get out of df to post their findings so when they posted on forums is completly irrelevant.They also arent posting timestamps of when said events took place.
There's also the fact that they are US players encountering issues on US servers.Its not like there's swathes of European players lurking around on the American servers just to harrass american players.
The issue is largely in the American player community and not the other regions.

[Metalwrath]

I have not seen this at all...

You wont.The most you'll see on Zodiark is some fc infighting over silly things.And all the players who are confirming they see this happen all come from US servers.It's not really happening on EU servers.

[Metalwrath]

I also think blaming WOW players makes no sense.We've had WOW players in the ff14 community since 2.0 release.There's always been plenty of them.

[Machi_Machiavelli]

*Clears throat*

Bunch of single-pulling, cure-spamming, 1-hotbar having, mechanic failing, vuln-stacking, content-respecting, boss-turning, ledge-falling, RP-tag having, piety-slotting, half-naked glamouring, veraero hardcasting, emote spamming, blizzard wizarding, ability-clicking, eternal bonding, tether ignoring, half-your-toolkit using dead weights!

j/k the toxic needs to go.

[Pokefan5]

Because arbitrarily demonizing people isn't toxic :eyeroll:.

As someone who pugs EX and Savage on a nearly daily basis, my personal experience is pretty much the exact opposite. I've encountered significantly MORE toxicity in casual content from casual players.

Edit: Holy crap just saw your post history. Thanks for being a living example for me hon. xD

I have to fully agree with that, my worst experiences in this game are from casual content and casual players.

My favorite example is getting a ignore marker and emote spam by 2 players, because I was moving too fast in a dungeon. Let me elaborate:

I queued for roulettes after reset and got into Sohm Al (Hard). We say our greetings and get on our way into the dungeon. The tank pulls one pack at a time, a bit annoying but whatever, they know what they can handle.
I did always move past the pack a bit so it's easier to keep casting from one pack to the next.
For the most part, nothing, but towards the end of the dungeon the tank puts a ignore mark on me and the other dps starts spamming /facepalm at me.
Confused I asked why, and the response was basically that I was moving too fast/too far ahead of the tank.
Here I'd like to point out that I didn't run ahead and pull extra mobs, I always waited for the tank to pull, as I said, everyone knows their own limits. I was positioning myself so I didn't have to move as much before I could start casting again after a pack of mobs was done.
To this day I don't know why they thought it was necessary to emote spam me for that but I blacklisted them afterwards.

I never had anything similar to that in high-end content (Savage/Extremes) people there tend to be more helpful/friendly, if you actually ask/admit you messed up.
At least that was my experience when doing o4s in PF not knowing the strat that group used for it, as I was used to a different one.
I'm in a static since so I'm not quite as sure about how it is now, but I can't imagine it's really all that bad.

[Rivxkobe]

And here comes the Raiders coming out of the woodwork lol. Like i said, if you mention "Tenacity is a good melding option for Tanks", these guys will start attacking you left and right xD. Bye, Daily Post limit is happening, i want to save some for later xD.

Beginner's Guide to RareItems' posts:

If you disagree with them on TEN melds you are either:

A. Someone who melds DH and are butthurt.

or

B. A raider who is toxic and elitist.

If you point out how she is incorrect or being toxic she will either:

A. Attempt a poor insult and stumble through some unimportant point while firing "xD" around.

or

B. State they are correct and they have the "facts" without supporting them, and actually contradicting them, and ignoring the actual facts.

or

C. Ignore you because They can not handle being incorrect or having an actual conversation.