Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
I can only speak for myself. That being said... What you've described of what I want and what I think about other players above, is absolutely, 100% a caricature of my perspective. Things like "no amount of damage could satisfy me," that I have a distain for players who want to heal, or that I cannot believe that there are people who enjoy healing (It's almost like I've suggested there be a healer specifically designed for players who do not like DPSing on healers countless times at this point.)

The reason it becomes infuriating is that I have explained my perspective multiple times over the years, and still I am grouped into a caricature of the big bad DPS wanabee healers that you are effectively describing. That is why things break down, because after the cordial discussions and calm back and forths, it always ends up coming back to this cartoon villain description sooner or later. And surprise pikachu face, people stomp their foot down.
It's really funny when he complains that people make a caricature out of his arguments but he's totally fine with making a caricature out of other people's arguments. Like when he stretched so far to call me an elitist that doesn't want anyone worse than me to clear any content simply because I said that the skill ceiling should be higher and that job mastery should be rewarded (I often parse grey btw, so there's not many people worse than me in the first place), this is despite me going to math out how much impact that my suggested 10-20% gap would have (not much impact at all in first floor savage and below).