Things to think about before you call someone "Bad"

[van_arn]

To be fair, the ice black mage has been debunked because they are capable now of hitting 4.6k just by rotating between thunder casts and B3/B4. And my numbers are with my static - marking me as a definite weak link that I need to fix. Why is everybody jumping up in arms against my post - I was using myself as a prime example against the person I was responding to. I didn't say that these so-called elitists don't exist, but I am saying that they aren't in the overwhelming numbers that people like to say are everywhere, especially when they are sharing sentiments that the entire raid community is like this.

When you are me, when you have been raiding since Deltascape and have been playing since 3.56...then yeah, I would assume that anybody with a right mind would consider that my absolute best at 5k on ninja would mark me as a trash player. Not saying everybody else pulling 5k is trash...but I can understand the sentiment that people say I'm a bad raider.

Don't get me wrong, if you're in the 9th percentile as a nin in savage that means you've got some room to improve. In savage. That doesn't mean you need to be so hard on yourself, though, because if you're just getting a clear without being carried in savage you're already ahead of probably 90% of the playerbase. Hell, being this self-conscious of your damage might even be doing more harm than good this early in the cycle. Since you're not at 1% with 3000 damage, you're not being carried, especially if you're going full party utility mode. #Sorrrynotsorry.

As for ice mage, what that reddit post entailed was a very bored (with experience) black mage seeing how far they could push an ice rotation for the luls. That's not the typical, and legendary, ice mage you'd find lazily 121212121212ing in Duty Finder. I would kill for a guarantee for every black mage I come across to hit 4k, but that's just not how it goes. And the weakest ones typically show up where their damage is needed most, such as on the Mist Dragon or during big pulls in Poo Palace.

Heck, any DPS class hitting 4k is a pleasant surprise in typical content. It's not "good" damage and it's not "high" damage. It might even be "low" damage. But it's an amount of damage that shows you don't stand in bad, you push buttons (though maybe not in the right order) and you're paying attention. That's it.

That's all I ask for.

And then the forums riot.