essen wrote:Now I think most of you confuse why people are elitists in PSU. It's not about TA, it's about gear. "I have a Spread Needle, you don't, so I'm better than you." 99% of the elitism in PSU comes from this. Then sure, these people do say they run fast and they're the best and so on. But they aren't. The people who are actually good at the game (meaning, good at TA) are generally nice and helpful, and they're the ones answering the questions people ask(ed) on the forums when it got technical. (I talk in the past here because almost none of these still play, even on 360.) Yet people call the TA people elitists? Sounds like jealousy to me.
While I agree that gear is a contributing factor for elitism, it's not the way you describe it. It's not a "I have a Spread Needle, you don't, so I'm better than you"; it's a "I have a Spread Needle, but I can kill monsters in 2 shots and everything in the room in 20 seconds while you can't even hit a monster while I'm doing this, therefore I'm better than you". Owning a type of gear has nothing to do with whether you are an elitist or not; it's how it is being used (with respect to the surrounding players in a team) that defines who is an elitist.
This doesn't necessarily mean that "TA" people are "elitists". There is nothing wrong with people TAing,
if and only if the entire team agrees that a run is suppose to be a TA run. On the other hand, if you just start jumping into a random team that has no intention of TAing and you start killing things left and right because "you want to clear it as fast as possible", then said "TA" person is an elitist.
Going back to gear now, just because I own a Spread Needle doesn't mean I'll necessarily use it to kill monsters left and right in 2 shots - maybe I'm using it for something else instead that doesn't involve killing monsters. Subsequently, a player can equip the worst possible gear ever but if it is enough to kill monsters left and right while other players can't even hit them, then you have issues. Again, gear doesn't describe who is an elitist, it's the actions of a player that does.
In short, there is a time and place for everything and TAing in a team that has full intention of doing a casual run is not that time and place.