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Spoilerhelping my GF do her Copperbell run. Seriously, the first dungeons you stuck up SOBs?!

wow. it makes me sad that so many stupid people play MMOs.

I'm actually offended that they played on the same XI server that I did.

The tank who quit on me and my GF couldn't b!@#h about gear because our gear was better than his. He quit because my GF got lag killed by a bomb AOE (she was out of range on my screen, her own and the healer's) The tank said something about "stupid noobs can't even dodge AOE" and quit. The replacement tank was awesome though. Told us that it was his first run but listened well to instructions and was a good tank in general.

honestly i think its a safe bet that a naked party could finish Sastasha or any of the early dungeons np. Also, I'd much prefer having to give a newbie tanking lessons over having to deal with the neghead attitude of a sad and depressing elitist person any day.

Famfrit server? I may have to transfer there.

I think the good would far out weight the bad it would do. Sure that elitist MNK from the other night would have rated me down, but the BLM and PLD from the same party would have rated me up, along with the 6 other friends i made from doing Chimera runs. Sure the elitist could rate you down, but odds are you and every other person in the party would rate them down so i think it would work out. ^.^

I just thought it would be a good idea for the DF. I am taking the idea from my experience on XBOX live and their rating system. I find it so much better to avoid those ******* players.

First time I met an elitist was back in FFXI. I was EXPing my level 70-something SMN and I was wearing a Vermillion Cloak instead of an Austere Robe+1 (which I owned, but the Vermy and I had a long history so I often wore it instead unless we were doing HNMs and such). For the attempted reaming this MNK was trying to give me you'd think I had rectally defiled his potted plants. "They're crabs dude. I have more MP than Altana herself and its one pair of BPs a fight anyway. Deal with it."

Unless we're counting the YEARS of "lolSMN" treatment I and other received maining SMN immediately at launch as elitism. That never stopped until the patch a couple years ago.

In FFXIV I met a mild form of it at level 26-ish? Two friends and I were doing a Sastasha run and invited a pickup WHM. I was using Topaz Carby to control all the adds while the others killed one mob at a time, with the tank pulling new ones off Carby as we went. It was FFXI Carby-holding, one of our oldest tricks in the book. Its hard to describe just how perfectly it works in the intro dungeons. Mr. WoWie WHM had problems with it.

The label elitist shows up almost thirty times in this thread, which is bizarre considering not one personal anecdote has described an elitist at all. It's actually kind of easy to tell: Elitists use static parties. It's about min/maxing, and you can't min/max with random people. You just can't. It's not an opinion, it's a simple fact. So if your story involves a pick up group or a shout, then you're not dealing with an elitist. You're dealing with an idiot.

I'm not an elitist at all. My highest class right now is 24 and I love helping people out when I can. That being said, I have been annoyed in one run, I think Copperbell, maybe Tam-Tara. The Marauder simply wasn't tanking, but was taking a lot of damage. Oh and he wasn't folloowing target order. I'm not really sure what he was doing. I basically tanked the entire instance on my archer (no, I wasn't simply over-DPSing) since the other DPS and obviously the healer both seemed a little more squishy than I. Luckily, we somehow managed to clear the dungeon. Instead of berating the tank though, I just thanked the healer at the end for doing a great job.