Tactful ways to inform people that they're playing badly?

[Gaethan_Tessula]

Ridiculous to think or even entertain your or my supremacy at job/class for video game. By all means, continue you "tactful solutions" on implementing better performance while NOT acknowledging improvement in your own performance.

I do think about and critique my own performance. Here's an example: I often get lazy on hitting Lucid because WHM can nearly ignore MP management in a lot of fights, if they go well. Meaning when things go south, I can suddenly find too much spell left at the end of my mana. But being introspective doesn't make me ignorant to poor play from others.

It's a lot easier to get a big increase in results from improving a heavily suboptimal player than a decent or better player. For a more specific example, it's easier to get X000 more DPS from the player with a bad rotation or who only wants to heal, than it is for someone in the 75th percentile to squeeze that number out of further optimization.

I will tell you why people dislike when you call them out for things: it gives off the impression that you think you're superior.

Sometimes, in regards to specific tasks or knowledge sets, people are superior to others. Everyone has equal worth as a human being, but the value they bring to specific circumstances is variable.

There are a lot of bad things that can happen when this difference between specific value and intrinsic worth is forgotten, in both directions.