Things to think about before you call someone "Bad"

[van_arn]

One would hope so - I've been in enough discussions on this forum and to an extend ingame when I gave advice in exactly that way and people either told me that its rude and toxic to give advice at all if the person hasnt asked for it or got outright mad at me for even implying that they might not be playing perfectly.
When I ask "May I give you some advice?" to be super-polite, I often get meet with silence - which I'm apparently supposed to take as "No", but I'll be damned if I dont tell that tank to use their damn AeO-aggro-skill when mobs are chewing on the healer, myself and the poor melee-dps.

Just implying that someone is doing something wrong is already toxic in some peoples opinion, even if you're "implying" in the nicestes way possible by giving friendly, polite and on-point advice.

I recall a ninja blindly running into the bossroom of the third boss of the vault once, while the tank and healer were still watching the cutscene. Ninja died. I quite literally told the healer "Dont raise him to avoid the weakness, he can teleport back" - which was such an outragoues thing to say that the ninja complained about it for the next two minutes. I didnt comment on him being an idiot for charging into the bossroom, I didnt call him out on that even - I just made a very simple statement and explained why in relation to an ingame-mechanic.

...you'd be surprised how bad advice is recived by a lot of people - the thread I mentioned early? Guy in question needed 20 pages of people telling him what he did wrong and how to do better to finally agree on looking into a guide.

I'm a terribly naive person, so I still try to give advice - and I can hear the heavy sigh of my boyfriend right now who always asks me "Why do you even bother? They wont listen anyways..."
Normally I'm right about stuff. This is the one time he beats me.

Yeah, the 300 commendations so he's a pro guy. He'll be back; he changed his name and I sincerely doubt he learned anything from his second go through the forums.

Granted, he was making progress. He was using shield lob only his first time in a normal dungeon, halone combo only his second in Rabinastre, and JUST MAYBE he'll be using royal authority AND a cooldown for his third run-in. IF the Seven will it.