What is an 'Elitist'

[Everdark]

forum users.

[kingatlas]

Yeah wrong place to ask this, your just gonna get DB's patting themselves on the back saying that they are great.

This is where a lot of the "elitist" hang out anyways.

Watch all the White knights defend Elitist practices.

Elitist is mostly the game Nazi's, who think they are great and they know everything. Lots of them aren't even that good, they just have a narcissistic belief in their own abilities that inflates their ego's.

[Lalivia]

An elitist is what bad players call players that use their brain/play smart.

[Lunavi]

Being an Elitist in this game means that you are better at this game than the person who calls you that. So I see it as a compliment whenever I read it in an MMO.

To me though, being an elitist in MMOs is being unable to understand that you were a noob once yourself and can no longer grasp the posibility that others started play this game after you.

IRL I am an elitist by it's true meaning. I think the world shall be ruled by an intellectual elite... But that is another thread in another forum.

[Issachar]

There's a difference between being elitist and being just plain better than most of the player base.

Elitists are the ones who think they're better and will do whatever they can to assert this, be it posting parses, speaking condescendingly to others, and refusing to help.

Skilled players help carry the party by doing their part and offering advice and tips to those that could use it, while not trying to wear the mantle of superiority.

Generally speaking, the latter end up having the best performance. At least, I have yet to meet an elitist that support their party as well I can.

[Odett]

Someone who politely tells a new or bad player what they're doing wrong and how to fix it and either get ignored or rudely spoken back to.

[Elim]

Someone who politely tells a new or bad player what they're doing wrong and how to fix it and either get ignored or rudely spoken back to.

This. Basically, if you try to help a PuG, even in the nicest way possible, you become an eltist. The PuG will then proceed to rip your face off and eat you for dinner.

This is why giving a gold metal to everyone in a race and having no winners or competition is a bad thing. People can't handle constructive criticism anymore.

[Doo]

I assume it's like just what happened in T4 right now.

"I hope none of you are on my server" says the tank. Players that think they have skills (some do, most just think) and treat others badly?

Nowadays it's used on anyone that wants to play the game skillfully. I.E Special snowflakes, I.E doesn't play for fun, etc.

[Kat_Manx]

Honestly the term is kind of used wrong very often but.. to me..

An elitist is someone who believes they are always right. Refuses to listen to advice. Refuses to realize that even though "this is how they have always done it," it is not how everyone else does it. (For example the bomb to kill at Titan EX, I constantly run into groups who have two different ways of "always doing in at the same spot," and then mess it up because they didn't discuss strategy beforehand.)

They believe that no mistakes can be made, and furiously attack people who do mistakes. They refuse to believe lag or latency is real, except if in fact they mess up. THEN it was totally lag. Or their goldfish was on fire. Or it was your fault, not theirs.

They refuse to help or even gently guide new people. They immediately leave dungeons if they find out someone is new. Because they were never new. They were born with the info on how to finish a dungeon hardwired into their brain. Assume everyone should watch videos of a dungeon before they do it. Assume everyone needs to skip cutscenes in the Duty Finder. Assume speedruns. Call everybody noobs and make them feel bad. Then tell them they are sensitive for having feelings. Yet they rage out immediately when someone even suggests they might be mean. Troll everyone. Because trolling is just joking. It can't possibly hurt anyone.

Somehow they think being slightly better at a videogame makes them in any way a more worthy human than anyone else. Very confusing, self-centerd people. In very short i would just make the equation:

Elitists = narcissists.

[Rizzo_]

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I agree. People who ragequit after one wipe I avoid as that's taking things too serious lol.