What is an 'Elitist'

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Black91CRX]

Elitists = narcissists.

Pretty much this

[Truefaith87]

Long answer short, to make this entire topic true... Elitest = Lalafell

[Magis]

Elitist at this point is a generic word to be used as an insult.

[RumiP]

anyone that says anything mildly negative about me

basically this

[Lafiele]

I've seen the word thrown around too many times and different people give different views. So I wanted to know what do you guys view as an elitist?

An elitist is someone who is above average but not on the top (but they think they are). To make it worst, they use this to look down on newer less experience players, completely forgetting that they once, had to die to a fight many times to get to where they are at. In addition, in comparison to real pro players who don't act like a douche, they pale in comparison but solely believe due to their distorted vision of him/herself they are on equal standing but ha ha... everyone knows you're not buddy. Btw, not to be mistaken with jealous bunch of people who hype themselves up as super good players but for some reason they always get the boot in pugs cause they're not "pulling their weight" and their friends pat them in the back saying don't worry, it's not you, it's everyone else.

e.g
Example for eltism:

elitist range dps dude: dude man the monk is not doing enough DPS, my elite illegal parser is telling me (blm) i'm doing 260 DPS whereas you're only doing 251 DPS. Please kick him, he is not pulling his weight.
reasonable leader dude: ? what are you on about solshan?, this is our first wipe... and -20 dps isn't a huge issue... nothing that is make or break.
elitist range dps dude: No man, he's melee, he should always be doing more dps than me!!!!
reasonable leader dude: well that depends on the fight... also your dps would be aritificially higher because there were a group of adds you could aoe.
elitist range dps dude: screw this, i'm out, see you noobs.
elitist range dps dude leaves the party


For the bunch of hyped up kids example:
Desperate males: omg lily you're such a good healer!! wowwwwww *knees on all fours and prays*
Everyone else: ???? why do those guys keep saying she is good, she is not pulling her weight... keeps running out of mana and consistently overhealing with medica II for no reason... *examines her gear* wow, she has a lot of piety melds too in her i90 gear... fail...I feel sorry for the other healer..