[Feedback] We need a solution to help players improve... Simple Idea.

[Phoenicia]

Ironic, since people with autism have a hard time looking at things from another's PoV and caring about anyone other then themselves.( I'm also Autistic)

Also, dps meters do show you the skills used.

I'd rather we refrain from attacking people in person. There was no reason to bring her autism up even if you also are autistic. It was totally uncalled for. Azazua and I want the same end, we're just disagreeing on the means.

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The whole reason my walls of text end up being walls is that I AM looking at things from a PoV that isn't mine. I explain, iterate and use analogies to convey things so the other PoVs see it.

I am, no where in my post, asking to "burn through content". Quite the opposite. I am telling you NOT to "burn through" if you can't. I do not expect you to skip phases if you can't. But if you can, and it is better, why the heck not?

You are also right, people should learn basics first before "maxing" anything. People that say "ignore adds" or certain mechanics is usually because those adds or mechanics hardly affect the fight in a significant way. If you wanna kill the bees that do basically nothing in the Sohm Al, be my guest. But if you're gonna spend an hour trying to kill that Bee because you can't even bother to learn that Chaos Thrust comes after Impulse Drive?... I'm sorry, there is an issue to be addressed here.

People not wanting advice is understandable. I like to figure things out by myself also. And I definitely do not like getting helped. Ask all the people close to me. But the problem here isn't advice about a new mechanic where you need 5 to 30 minutes to figure out. Heck, for the whole first week or two of new patches, I ask people if they wanna "enjoy and discover" or have the mechanics spilled out for them. I even ask the others that if they have cleared not to "spoil" the fun for me. I do that from any dungeon all the way to top tier raids (Except Alexander Savage, I wasn't very keen on it at first for a few reasons out of this topic's scope).

But if you took whatever-many-days you played from level 1 to 54 on BLM and still haven't figured out by yourself that Fire is there for damage and blizzard for MP? Chances are you're never going to figure it out yourself and someone HAS to intervene. Specially when YOUR performance is hurting EVERYONE ELSE'S TIME. Now how you spend your time is entirely up to you, but I definitely value mine. And I would rather be productive (even in game) than spend say 1 hour in Aurum Vale/The Aery because Mr. I-don't-like-to-be-helped didn't want people to help him take baby steps like eating fruit at 3 stacks or killing the prison before it explodes and kills the healer, when he should be jumping 10 feet. Notice here I'm not saying they're teaching him to jump 10 feet, they're teaching him the baby steps that he's failing at.

And how am I coming off as an elitist when I clearly said "If runs are running smooth, I would not give advice"? Let us look at the definition of elitism then.

On Wikipedia: Elitism is the belief or attitude that some individuals who form an elite—a select group of people with a certain ancestry, intrinsic quality or worth, high intellect , wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes—are those whose influence or authority is greater than that of others; whose views on a matter are to be taken more seriously or carry more weight; whose views or actions are more likely to be constructive to society as a whole; or whose extraordinary skills, abilities, or wisdom render them especially fit to govern.

On a dictionary:
adjective:
1. (of a person or class of persons) considered superior by others or by themselves, as in intellect, talent, power, wealth, or position in society.
2. catering to or associated with an elitist class, its ideologies, or its institutions.
noun:
1. a person having, thought to have, or professing superior intellect or talent, power, wealth, or membership in the upper echelons of society.
2. a person who believes in the superiority of an elitist class.

Since I do not believe myself to have mastered my class or to belong to the top raiding community, I cannot be an elitist. I do not "impose" my "intellect" or "talent" or "skills" on anyone. I do not claim to have, or if anyone should have, authority on anyone else. All I do is value my own time while still accommodating to help those who have trouble. I offer help when people clearly struggle.

Heck, by definition, anyone thinking advice givers are elitists IS the elitist. Ironic, huh? lol

As long as you are doing passable DPS as a DPS, I do not care. Heck, even if you're doing 200 and I can carry you, I do not care. If you're a tank and you're not losing aggro or dying to everything you pull, I do not care. If you're a healer and you're keeping everyone from dying (granted they're decent enough not to eat everything that damages them) without the tank popping Hallowed Ground and the SMN/BLM healing everywhere in the dungeon, I don't care. Even if you do not DPS as a healer or tank. I want my clear and I want it with the least headache possible. But I expect dungeons to be cleared in roughly 25 minutes. I am fine with that 25 becoming 30. I do not mind carrying anyone if it's within these reasonable times. But when that 25 minute run becomes 45? Come on.. 25 minutes is not even close to burning through, that's being normal. Burning through is me taking another SMN, a WAR tank and a WHM like-minded friends and we AoE everything to oblivion in as little pulls as possible chained together, aiming for sub-15-minute clears.

And as I said, I play 2 characters, one of them is exclusively a ninja. Unlike my SMN, the ninja won't do near 3k DPS on packs. So on a ninja, I REALLY feel it when the DRG is doing 500 DPS on a pack of 12 mobs when the lowest AoE DPS class in the game (sans paladin) can pull 1800 on 12 mobs in 1.5 minutes. Then on the first boss, the tank engages, and 1 minute into the fight the DRG finally steps in to DPS. Doing his no-rotation skills at random only to die 30 seconds later to the first AoE jammed towards face. Next pack the DRG joined halfway through. Same thing next pack. So my tank friend had it, voted kick, I said yes. Am I elitist for kicking him? No. Was my friend elitist for initiating the vote? no... But the DRG wasn't even trying. He was expecting a carry based on our efforts and didn't even pretend the opposite. THIS is what I'm against. not the guy learning his job, but doing 950 instead of 1400 DPS.

Since I am not imposing my play style on anyone. I also expect no one to impose theirs on me. Again, I'm not expecting max efficiency where everyone does 1400+ DPS all the time. Heck, even I can't do that, and I like to consider myself good though not the best, never mind expect it of others. But I expect everyone to at least try and finish the dungeon without messing up everything. Heck, use your abilities wrong, that IS better than not using half the things on your hotbar. At least let me know you're trying because I am.