Elitist behaviour in dungeons: [venting]

[Freyt]

Last time I had someone criticize my play, I was dps'ing as healer and didn't heal every little hit they took. It was very clear they were not contributing as much damage as I was. Of course, they had to tell me "if you want to dps then don't pick healer", among other things. I could have told them many things that would have humiliated them, but I merely responded by telling them that I had not yet let anyone die, so there was no issue. They kept whining about it over and over. I wasn't gonna argue with them, so let's just say I made sure they had a bad time.

Moral of the story is, elitists aren't necessary elite. Someone who's been around the block enough to know what they're doing is much more likely to accept mediocrity.

[Rawry]

Ask the healer first.

Or at least have the gear to be able to take the hits. Love when the tank has crap gear but blames me when I cant heal them through 15 mobs. -_-

[Mikki]

I must be lucky. I've been playing since the days of ARR and I can count the number of bad experiences that I've had in-game on one hand.

Same. I've been playing since alpha testing and I've had maybe three bad encounters. One of them wasn't even that bad, they made a rude comment once or twice but weren't harassing me constantly like the first bad experience I had. And one they literally just left because I died once. n__n; Which felt bad but oh well.

[Vahlnir]

Looks like you ran into a jerk. There's doesn't appear to have been any elitism going on here. "Elitist behavior" probably doesn't mean what you think it means. Regardless, it sucks. We've all been there. Just shrug it off and move on. If I spent every single day of my life letting myself get angry over someone being a jerk I'd probably never be happy.

[Shirosama]

As a person that main's healer I always encourage large pulls BUT at the same time I let the tank do what is comfortable to them. They are playing a tank. Let the Tank...TANK. there's no harm in taking it easy. Trying to speed through a dungeon because you feel a tank is pulling to little so you start adding mobs to their pull is a easy way to get blacklisted by most tanks and even more so just turns new players off to the game. Let the people playing tank get a feel for what they are doing and pull more as they get comfortable with it, ( Tanks I feel for you guys as I have tried my hand at tanking and while i'm decent some of you guys impress the hell out of me )