This is the end.

[RiceisNice]

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The "worthless" statement came after the critique, after his reply, and after his silence, whether or not that critique itself was bad, we don't know. I got labeled for being one of those people just for pointing out one example of the perspective by boosti himself, how am I so sure that he isn't hyperboling about being "crucified" when he did so to me in this topic?


The other people in his party doesn't even know his intent for playing ballad to begin with, he never bothered justifying it to them. Honestly that point, it doesn't matter who was hostile or uncooperative first, because both sides of the party aren't being cooperative. My point is that you shouldn't play the "mind your own business card", because honestly, they're in your party, it is their business on how you play can affect them. Boosti wasn't in the right to be that dismissive to the party, regardless of what their initial response was. And we don't even know for sure if it was that bad to begin with from the beginning because we don't have screenshots or anything else to go by other than his word (which, again, has been pretty hostile to people who are not on his side).

We don't know if he got attacked or not and to what degree the statement was. If he didn't, it's even worse with how he reacted. If he did, it doesn't justify him reacting the way he did anyway because that only adds to the vitriol that is this community. And everything that happened after-the-fact (calling him useless, kicking him) was after his response and after his silence, so he could have very well provoked that even further with his dismissive response.

The other bard appears to assume Boosti is clueless about the fact that ballad has no effect on the DRK's MP with Darkside up, when it appears Boosti's did understand that and his intentions was to give the DRK the MP boost when they deactivated Darkside. let's take those elements together.

But that goes back to an earlier statement I made: sometime people don't know what they don't know. Perhaps to Boosti, providing the MP boost seemed like a valuable utility to possibly two other members of his party. He isn't wrong in the notion that tanks and healers can provide meaningful DPS.

The party does not know that was his intention. He never even bothered telling them or correcting them when they assumed that he was playing ballad for the DRK. There's no communication or attempt to defuse the situation, but instead he told them off.

So let's look at it from that situation. Boosti feels like he's under attack, with everyone in the party potentially turning against him. At the same time, he feels like the other Bard is calling him out without trying to understand his purpose. In my opinion, that paints the picture of someone pushed into a corner and simply reacting badly. A behavior I think anyone can say has happened to them at least one or two times in their lives.

And again, my point is how you react to that. especially the bolded part, boosti himself had made no attempt to clear up anything or to even correct the bard (why was he playing ballad to begin with?) He's done the "corner and reacting badly" thing in this very same topic as well, except people were not even openly hostile to him to begin with. To me, that paints something of him being extremely reactive to people that do not nessescarly agree with what he does or believes.