as nethereal said, it wasn't aimed at you directly but more or less aimed at similar posts, those who insult and flame everyone that isn't them while they're also the first ones to be offended at another player's behalf
OP - and others including me - are talking about players who are at max level, of players who should know how to play their class at an average, decent level
not a single person is asking for savage/ultimate-tier performance from randoms and yet:
that's exactly what many of the people seem to think "we" want! for legitimately zero reason, too, only because it's easier to defend these "poor casuals" from those "toxic elitists" if the so called elitists are constantly painted as the big bad that's ruining everyone else's fun with [made up reasons] because ??? who knows
as you can read throughout the thread, most of those so-called "toxic elitists" are trying to help people and are met with negative responses because people do not like to have their bad playstyle/behaviour pointed out and will invent scenarios to make the person that tries to help look bad and said behaviour, if you experience it often enough, will also make the person trying to help less likely to help the next person that's struggling
hell, the OP you've decided is a bad guy is talking about that, too
that's not: "considering the very first post comes down to "get gud" and "Im not helping the newbs" im going to graciously disagree with half your point."Also, Im not going to bother trying to teach people things in game. Been there, done that. You get screamed at.
TO clarify: I'm mainly concerned about level 70-80 characters having these issues.
that's: "I'm tired of being insulted for trying to help someone who shouldn't need help"
the actual self centered elite is still skipping those cutscenes, y'know, that never stopped
this isn't about new players being treated badly, this thread is about players with a maxed out class playing like they never played it before, in "end game" content none the less