Quote Originally Posted by Absimiliard View Post
The most fascinating thing about players that espouse the use of parsing data to shut others out of public discourse is how many of them seem to lack even the most basic level of self-awareness. There is a clear correlation between the negative behavior in question and being bad at the game.
It is called a delusion, by not understanding how video games and encounters work and are designed they believe "beating" one as a group is some great achievement worthy of respect and admiration while in reality the very fact it is a group only adds to the illusion of difficulty, you might play well and even improve over the course yet have 10-20 wipes which creates the illusion this is some really hard and difficulty challenge.

But once you start analyzing what is going on, isolate individual performance, you realize the only reason so many wipes happen is because some fail in either performance or mechanics repeatedly, even if you are doing more than it is required aka carrying it could still be not enough considering personal performance at the end isnt going to beat a group encounter single-handedly.

If they realize that, and then realize the ENORMOUS room for error and suboptimal performance that exists they would realize high end pve content is not some great achievement but of course, if you are an unhealthy gamer tm whose self worth depends on video game achievements and raid clears, you dont want to realize that since all your ego will collapse since you invested in the wrong place.

That is sadly a delusion no small amount of "raiders" have in mmorpgs in general.