the OP is talking about himself in second person in that sentence, at least to me in that context (having been in the same shoes multiple times)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/psych...b0928a6b781891
having been screamed at and insulted for trying to help low and high level players alike when they were struggling to heal the tank/raid/other examples and doing it in the nicest way possible - and having seen other players do the same and being treated similarly - it's never been bossy behaviour
"gets ruined on delivery" is such a cop-out, sorry, but that's the truth, even if you walk on eggshells around some players, they will take personal offence at how nice you worded your help because you're "condescending" or similar headcanons to be the victim
I don't understand how a player that struggles wouldn't want help, but maybe it's a nurture thing?
you know who's the condescending part most of the time? the player that carries the non-player through the content, the one that's telling them they're playing perfectly fine when they're using nothing but cure and medica 1 past level 50
hell, my first post on the forums here was defending myself against the allegations that I was being toxic to a tank and their healer, said toxicity being that I asked the healer to use something else other than cure in bardam's mettle, a level 65 dungeon, because the tank was dying to the very first pull due to the lack of healing!
true, I did accidentally aggro the second pack because I was in their line of sight during their scripted patrolling, but what the tank didn't say is that:
1) the enemies would've aggro'd to us regardless due to all of us being in line of sight of said patrol
2) painted me as if I actively tried to grief them, which I didn't
3) straight up lied to defend their friend, the bad healer, by saying that the abilties that I listed aren't unlocked at that level when in fact they were, considering I was also levelling the same class up during that time
like, sure, my response in the in-game chat was passive aggressive, I'm not going to defend that because it happened in the spur of the moment (and I'd have apologized had I not been kicked :^)), but that condescending behaviour of the tank, who actively keeps their friend from learning* their class' abilities due to this weird "you don't pay their sub" "they don't want help" line of thinking
how is that fair to all the people who will have to pick up said healer's slack in later content when they've been taught the class wrong?
*turned out they already had WHM at 80 on another character, so much for it being about letting someone learn how to play without giving them bad habits![]()

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