Quote Originally Posted by Ralph2449 View Post
And that is why I will always disagree with that because game communities are rarely healthy or have normal standards, take WoW's community for example which is known for its elitism and toxicity, if you arent a metaslave getting into groups is 4 times harder even if you are a better player because the community brainlessly values metaslaving over anything else because you really cant quantify good play(unless you start from day 1 of the patch so your r.io is ahead of the curve, i dare you to change mains later on though cuz linking main isnt as useful as some believe)
So we have a community who falsely believes the only way to clear things is only with broken meta combs and anything else is """unviable""" even though many times this """unviable""" thing performs better than the metaslaves who simply play something they dont like because they were told its meta.
The amount of times throughout the years I had people in wow go like "Omg i didnt know X """unviable""" spec I played was good" and be completely surprised because they brainlessly listened to THE COMMUNITY are too many to count.

And let's not even go to the area where THE COMMUNITY demands ilvl equal to the rewards of said content to invite someone.

So no, I absolutely am against THE COMMUNITY ever having too much power because THE COMMUNITY is more often than not very very wrong on many things because they blindly follow simple guides or streamers and never truly understand the game.
And here we go with the exaggerations... again.

Yoshi P himself has said MANY times that everything is able to be done with any combination of jobs. People trying to undermine this are the ones who take things too far.

But setting a standard level of play at being able to perform the basic* rotation and mechanics of the job you're playing is perfectly acceptable.

*Knowing how your combos work, using your buffs/debuffs occationally, making use of any oGCD dps actions part of the time, basic understanding of any DoTs and their interactions with the job's kit, and know the main gimmick of the job to the point you know how to make use of it on a partial level.