
Originally Posted by
Vinupra-Rosa
Now I'm pretty sure you just straight up don't get it. It's not that they have 99s and over 75s. I will rephrase it, again.
1. Notably referring to underperforming players with insulting terminology/turns of phrase such as: social parasite and lazy and toxic while hiding behind a façade of niceties and people who are taking advantage of me (gcbtw!).
2. The humblebrag ("I am average" -> has 99s and >75s). If they acknowledged that they are skilled, even if not 'the best', then their stance would have been less unstable.
3. Incredibly selfish/inconsiderate statements and suggestions including advocating for 'skill-tiered' duty finder and 'automatic kicking of underperformers'. Assuming the worst out of underperformers.
Also numbers are numbers; you might think it's 'easy' to get high 99s and scores greater than 75 but listen, that isn't the case for everyone - it comes with practice, knowledge, and memorisation, all of which not everyone has at the same level as you do. It's easy enough to say 'oh, that's easy' once you've achieved it, but to those that have yet to it isn't so and such statements might not only fail to be a balm to their woes, but even run the risk of being downright offensive.
And yes it is entirely possible for people to get to 80 without being given guides. Not everyone who plays the game has the exact same gaming background that would make it second-nature to look for guides. Some might be lacking in awareness and/or misunderstand and/or completely fail to comprehend the guides shown to them. Some might have been given wrong advice (and I have personal experience in this matter) and all this is interlinked.
Learning is not straightforward and standard. People's minds don't all work the same. Charts and lists might work for some people, but to others it might as well be plain gibberish at best and a headache inducer at worst. Some might work much better with a hands-on approach like practical training and personal experience or coaching. This is teaching 101, and taught in basic EDU.
AND THIS is what gets me. [Not doing everything correctly] -> ["Oh they're expecting to be carried"]. That assumes an active intent where people who don't do things 'right' are doing it out of sheer maliciousness or laziness. That is the issue.
You know that joke where someone goes 'but single target has more potency than AoE!' failing to grasp right away that a lesser number times a larger quantity is better than a larger number against a single one? Yes. Some people are that slow and/or fail at math, and that might not even necessarily be their fault, but that rather they had nobody to correct them or even tell them that, hey, it's potency times the number of targets!
As with my point above-- assuming malice. Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance, and I honestly have seen people make gearing mistakes out of ignorance/lapse of attention. I've seen people quite late into the game be ignorant of just how significant an impact gearing has, and conversely underestimate it. Calling people out on it kindly rather than with blunt annoyance (as annoying as it may be to hold back) goes a long way--- and then, if they demonstrate that it was out of laziness and not ignorance, sure. Kick. Do whatever. You have your evidence that they are indeed being lazy.
This last week had me saddled with four (three until today) runs with 'bad' players. I noticed issues and gave pointers. I did not face backlash and instead saw a marked improvement in each of those runs. I can't help but wonder why that is the case.
In either case, it just happens to be part of the human condition that not everyone thinks and learns the same. Some learn and/or pick up on things far slower than others, and to those who learn faster the laggard rate of the 'slower' ones might seem offensive. It might seem unbelievable but it's entirely possible to hit 80 (it's not hard, especially with skips) while remaining utterly ignorant of core concepts of your role, job, the fights. It's by no means pleasant when that happens, but it doesn't mean it's also necessarily out of malice or laziness.
To which I return to my point:
If you care enough about 'bad players' to complain about them and act personally offended at the possibility of encountering them in a duty (parasites! ree!), then the only thing you can do is reduce the number of 'bad players' by offering help. If you don't want to offer help, then there's nothing you can do about them and there's no point to complaining about it. (You can try to take measures similar to what JP does and post a universal blacklist of 'bad players' on 2CH... or reddit, as in the case of the western playerbase, but I think you'll get banned for doing that and otherwise boo'd by the larger community.)
A questionable situation, but in this case bring it up to them. If they prove a truth to this statement:
And that their actions prove to be a detriment to the group? Sure, deal with them.