Quote Originally Posted by PercibelTheren View Post
A good half of the "advice" I receive is utter nonsense. The other day I had a tank tell me off for "being a bad healer" in Bardam's Mettle, because they had to use Nebula. Tanks who don't know how to mitigate and blame the healers for their mistakes are very common.

Advice is not toxic, but being a dick is. People who are defending being a dick and calling it "advice" are just outing themselves as jerks.
Okay, but how is that advice? It's not.

"You're doing a bad job because I had to use my big CD" is not advice and should not be conflated with advice. It's a MCS tank who has no idea how healing or tanking works.

Most of you guys don't even seem to understand what advice is.

Advice is not saying you're a crap player and need to get good. Advice is telling you how to be better. How to be more optimal.

No one's asking for ultimate level game play in DF. But if you immediately brush off advice without even trying or considering it because you think you know better?

I've had someone try to give me advice "as a former WHM main". And the advice was nonsensical. It happens. But I still did it for that run to appease them and then went right back to not doing it. Because it didn't matter. I wasn't going to sit there and argue with them to fluff my ego.

But I've also had someone tell me I was going to wind up in GM jail for saying "you don't need to LB Nero. With the time it takes and the amount of damage it does, it's better to just attack him" before the Prae rework. So let's not pretend people don't get hostile over nothing and everything is just because the advice giver is a jerk.