Quote Originally Posted by Angus View Post
Warning: I'm venting and this has been said before, but it bares repeating.

So on Friday I'm doing a simple Duty Finder dungeon run. I'm blm, not the best, but I'm learning my rotation. I can get Flare up pretty fast. I tend to use the same basic rotation on both single and group targets. Yes, I should work on that.

Anyways, things are going well and we're all running through it pretty quickly, when someone has a fit that I'm using Thunder 4 on a single target. They then proceed to say "let me school you on blm". This ticked me off beyond compare. A few runs down the line and they post the basic blm rotation.

I get it, I need to work on things, but I am getting better. If this this person had been watching, they'd have seen I was doing most of the rotation. Also, stuff happens, sometimes I lose my place in the rotation due to fight dynamics.

The point? If you want to give advice, ask the other play if they want it. This person's attitude threw my whole game off the rest of the run. I've been in parties where players asked others if they'd like a few tips. Those parties were some of the best I've been in. People start talking and sharing and we have great times. This is why I haven't left Final Fantasy.

Thanks for listening, hope some of you understand.
There's a good way and a bad way to give advice, your encounter with the teammate would fall under bad way.

That being said advice should not be given only if the player accepts to getting it. That's just silly. Let them say their advice, and you take it as you see fit. Either you'll take the advice or you won't.

"let me school you on blm" may make me want to go ice mage at that rate. But some people do it to feed their own egos. let them and move on. You'll learn your class in time. Not everyone starts off perfect, nor does everyone play perfectly 100% of the time. Just take a deep breath and carry on. :3