Another thing I'll notice is that some players will wipe a raid because of their perceived need to keep uptime, because somehow they believe they truly are better than everyone else, but are not. Sometimes I'll see players die or wipe a lot trying to cement a "#1 dps in this group" status that I'm not exactly sure anybody is even caring about or noticing (but me and definitely them) and will wipe a group or not cooperate in order to achieve that, and sometimes still fail in acheiving it. Some people are successful and you'll see them start to play better when they feel they met someone else skilled in their group all of a sudden or that their fake status is being threatened. Sometimes, if they are successful, they will suddenly begin to be more vocal, maybe move their character around more, and other subtle things that both show confidence, but that confidence only existed when they felt like they achieved their goal of making everyone else believe that they are the most important person in the group or somehow equating that to being "number one dps". (They fail to realize ranking still puts this thought into perspective lol)
Some players will lie. I was in an ex mount farm group where someone asked if they can play blm as fake melee, because its the most geared job they had. Nobody cared, because we were farming. He didn't do well and immediately the next pull, switched to a melee job that obviously was BiS then did his absolute best to outdamage the top damage-dealer there and after baaarely squeezing out a little extra damage right at the end (i noticed the other player had some hiccups) they left the group. What was that? Obviously they lied, but somehow they felt so threatened that they had to rejoin as a melee, expose themselves as lying, and then leave after "achieving their goal". Maybe they didn't want to stick around for another run when the other dps didn't have such a hard time or bad crit rng? Maybe they didn't want to feel their perceived "dominance" was threatened? (once again, rank can put this all into perspective)
so after seeing a lot of this in this game that wasn't immediately obvious to me before, I have to wonder how much more of this I can put up with noticing before I just decide to stop playing or lose my mind by calling out everybody I see doing stuff like this and possibly result in getting myself banned by doing so lol. I cannot unsee what I am seeing.

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