How has your mindset changed with regards to other players since your started the ga?

[van_arn]

I started to notice people becoming very agitated and unappreciative in these types of parties towards the end of Stormblood. People began to reject well-intentioned advice and often became verbally abusive towards me in my own parties, it even happened a handful of times in voice chat. Fresh learners even started raging if your strategy deviated from what was in the video guides, even when the guide strategies weren\\'t actually being used in PF (o12s MTQ dash strat I\\'m looking at you >.>; ). The more of those experiences I had, the less I was able to hold onto that joy that teaching gave me.

People generally seem to have less respect for other peoples time, all the while hiding behind a fake-nice facade and feigning some kind of moral superiority. It\\'s become almost impossible to point out when someone is obviously taking advantage, as people will trip over themselves to defend the behavior for some reason. I\\'ve been called an elitist for asking someone in a 70+ dungeon why they were only auto-attacking 75% of the time (They were tabbing out to type in discord during most pulls, by their own admission). I\\'ve been called toxic and kicked from a Memoria "clear party" for asking why they were explaining the first mechanic in the entire fight to their friend. I\\'ve been told "It doesn\\'t matter" when people try to fully afk through MSQ roulette. I\\'ve been called salty for asking someone to help fight mobs in palace instead of remaining afk in the spawn room until the gate was opened. You\\'ll just have to take my word for it that nearly all of these situations were approached with a reasonable, often softened tone. I probably even have screencaps of some of them, somewhere.

Don\\'t get me wrong here, struggling with the game is fine. I have a lot of friends who would be considered "bad", but I still find a lot of joy in playing with them. My own SO was stuck on the SB Hien solo duty for three days xD! Rather, these kinds of cases I\\'m increasingly encountering are situations in which a player who knows better is actively trying to take advantage. I honestly hope I\\'m just unlucky, and that this isn\\'t a trend in the community.

It’s the trend. I’ve given up on ex/raid learning parties entirely because the ones I’ve tried recently have players new to the content trying to argue with people that have cleared the content.

Seriously, you’re an ass if you join a practice party just to call the person taking time out of their night to teach others a fight an elitist because they made you feel a sad. Actually try to learn from your mistakes before lashing out at someone helping you. If you don’t want to be told how to do better, remove yourself so you won’t cause drama for the other 7 people willing to listen.