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    Scholar Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
    There's also the flip side where having that information can help you against those same assholes. It's surprisingly rare that a player who plays perfectly is going to jump into a Normal mode pug and start waving numbers around and showing off. Very often that's the medicore guy who's compensating.

    I still remember the time in WoW during a raid where one guy was hurling abuse over "low" dps and demanding kicks, so I linked the meters to him and told him to be quiet. He responded with "uh, I'm like twice as high as everyone else, see?". Then someone else quietly pointed out it was the "Damage Taken" meter because he'd stood in almost everything. Never seen a guy go quiet so fast...
    That's yet another issue I have with not having an official parser. You have zero options to defend players against accusations. If someone blames enrage wipes on anyone not doing enough dps all you can say is pretty much "I'm sure that's not the case, rotations looks fine from what I see". But you can't prove it. The moment you do, you risk a report because wether it was in defense of someone or not, openly admitting that you parse is a risk.
    So right now the best way is to just kick said person without saying anything.
    I had a recent reclear party where we repeatedly wiped on enrage and two of the tanks started to blame the healers for being "afk healers" and not doing enough dps. Sure, their dps wasn't stellar but it was completely fine. The problem was that the tank himself barely scratched 5k and one of the dps was really low aswell. Add a mistake or two resulting in a death and you have an enrage wipe. But none of us could say anything specific and we simply ended up kicking both the tank and the dps who lagged behind.
    I would've killed for something to shut this guy up...
    The good players are rarely the assholes. For the most part they try their best to help people who are willing to listen and are often the most patient ones of the group. They have cleared the content, they have their gear, they know what to do and only do reclears for fun or because they're in the mood to help.

    Silently kicking someone might get the job done but there enough people who are insecure about their performance although they're doing fine. Having someone be able to stand up for them without inviting a report from doing so would go a long way. And pushing some people from their high horses while you're at it? Priceless.
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    Last edited by Rilifane; 06-11-2020 at 08:45 AM.