Why are bards / Mechanists so... Sensitive? <_<

[QiLymePye]

exactly what i was thinking about casting time for song. I edited my original post with getting rid of casting time but adding a debuff of Heavy for 5 seconds (or less...maybe 3 sec) which slows movement speed by a certain percentage after cxl of song

[Hyunckel]

Maybe because we have to deal with shit like this...Someone just assuming because I am a bard, that I do shit DPS. I am a pretty good bard, my rotations while not perfect are decent and my gear ilvl was one of highest in the place (the place being bismarck EX). I covered most of his name to avoid shaming them. I have used a parser in the past on myself and my DPS has always been pretty good for the class, I know he was talking bullshit but us bards and machinists have to deal with this all the time.

Hey there, I can assure you that some BRD DO more damage than some shitty MNK/NIN/DRG...

But it's not that often tho. But when that happens, I always give my commendation to that BRD lol, OR if it's a MCH, especially if he didn't use his knockback all run lol

[SpiritMuse]

As I read all the replies, the OP's best and most repeated responses are things like "I don't see it like that, people are just sensitive, my friends joke about it". Clearly this person has no....what's the word...apathy? He sees it as because something doesn't affect ME, therefore it's okay to do. By that logic should I say "haha fags" to a gay couple I see in a train? It's just a joke that I say to my friends all the time..what's the big deal? Just no dude. Learn how to put yourself in others shoes. If you can't then I feel sorry for you.

Empathy is the word you're looking for. The ability to imagine how another person might feel and why someone might be offended by you being rude. Apathy is mostly the complete opposite - a state of not caring at all.

Not touching on the DRG topic, I just want to address the OP. No, You did absolutely nothing wrong in the situation you described, and yes, those people were being greatly oversensitive regardless of the current situation of BRD/MCN. I'd say don't judge them harshly because of it but honestly you'll never see them again most likely.

Now, before anyone goes and assumes this or that... I'm not talking about >legit< insults here, as that is always annoying... But not jokes... welcome to being an adult... If you're not sure if someone is joking or not the proper reaction is never "Be a triggered baby and ragequit", because in that situation, the only loser will be you.

Yeah except that when someone types just "ew bard", that is 1) no indication whatsoever that this is a joke instead of a deliberate insult and 2) not really a good joke anyway.

[Skinypupy]

But that is happening... I've been kicked multiple times from runs that never even left the gate, just because they see my class listed as Bard. Literally nothing I can do, I can't even prove my worth to the party, since I'm kicked before anything even happens. I've counted 9 times I've been kicked from a 3.0 dungeon in the last 24 hours.

Just seems ignorant (for lack of a better word) to be making a statement, pretending this problem doesn't exist...

I got kicked 2/3 of the way through a Library run yesterday. No one in the party had died, I was providing support songs when needed, and I actually thought the run was going quite well (faster than any of my previous runs, anyways). There wasn't a single comment from the other party members...I just found myself booted back in Idyllshire after the second boss went down. The only thing I can figure is that they felt it was taking too long or something.

If you're going to kick a party member for low DPS (or some other reason), at least have the cojones to say "Hey, we're kicking you because of 'X'". Randomly kicking someone out without a word is just bush-league bulls**t.