Quote Originally Posted by Biggs View Post
What then would you classify as an acceptable level of experience one would need then to have an opinion about the game?
do you think healing in a leveling party is the same as healing moogle? do you think dpsing in a leveling party or in solo leves is the same as dpsing in AV? for that matter, do you think doing anything in darkhold is the same as in CC? are ifrit and moogle the same? are av and cc the same? do you think dh and av/cc are the same? do you think because you've fought ifrit you could oneshot moogle? do you think because you beat batraal you could faceroll through av speed clears?

the point is- i take this stance because i get tired of people experiencing a very finite section of a game and assuming they can make a 100% accurate judgment about everything else in the game as a result. it's absolutely stupid, for the same reason it's stupid when people start playing WoW and get run through wailing caverns for the first time then assume every endgame raid is that way.

speaking from experience is fine, as long as you speak about that which you actually have experience with. if you don't have experience with something, either don't address it or do so prefaced with "i haven't actually done this, but my assumption is _______" so it's very clear you're contributing your largely baseless opinion.

and opinions are fine. we can have those. we can share those. i'm just saying- having an opinion on Simurgh, whether valid or not, doesn't mean you have a valid opinion on King Behemoth. if you've experienced both, though, and want to share your opinions on either or both- fine. completely and totally fine.

but that's not what people are doing, and it's dumb, and i take issue with that.