Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
It doesn't work unless you balance to the bottom.
Uh huh, doesn't work according to who? Why are your anecdotes any more important than anyone else's? The only argument you have against any of this is that you've been in some parties that didn't work out. But if we look at things logically, a good player will balance out a bad player, meaning balancing for the middle will have the highest chance of pleasing everyone. Also, full grey teams can still clear extremes, we're talking about extremes here, not the content that casuals won't even touch, like week 1 savage and ultimates.

Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
I didn't avoid your question, it's not relevant. That said, for what it's worth, if you believe people should do worse than you and should not be clearing content, that is elitist by the gaming definition and commonly accepted general meaning of the term. Don't go playing dictionary police now, you know exactly what I meant by it because of the common use/definition.
Even if you use the gaming definition, you're still wrong. I never once said people should be doing worse than me and that people who do worse than me shouldn't be clearing content, you can try and quote me where I said that, go ahead, I'll wait. The only thing I said is that skill ceiling should be higher and that mastery should be rewarded, anything other than that is just your made-up caricature of me.

Alternatively, if you're cool with labeling people things they're not now, then I'll give you the label of Sylphie. If you tell me that's not cool and you're not a Sylphie, then you're kind of a hypocrite because it's now a "rules for thee but not for me" situation. But if you're willing to apologise for the label, I'll drop it entirely, your move.