User:The Gates Assassin/Elitism from "Experience"

If you have been directed to this page then you have created a bad build, but think it is good because you have won a battle or two with it. Here is why you are probably wrong about that build.

Skill of your enemy
I swear on my life I have seen monks take Holy Haste and continuously cast healing breeze RIGHT after it and then reapply Holy Haste. I've seen videos of FLAREWAY MESMERS in HA winning in the Underworld. I have once soloed an entire team with a warrior with, and I'm not lying here, Riposte, deadly riposte, some crap sword attacks, heal sig, and mark of protection. That is the crap that is out there every single day. The chance that you face a team that bad is very high, so if you have any amount of skill at all and you build has the ability to...function, you will win. Does that mean your build is great? Lots of people think yes, but is every single player THAT bad? Are you ALWAYS going to face someone that terrible?

I've been in complete randomway groups, and have won. We lucked out and got a 2% moral boost, and 6 people rage quitted. We had a real monk, and henchies. We won our first three matches. Does that mean henchmen are overpowered? Hell no, we just got lucky and faced crappy teams.

In short, not everyone is good, so saying that your build is good because you pwnd someone who has never left AB or PvE says nothing.

Main Goals
Some people think their build is absolutely perfect because THEIR main goal is completed. If their goal is to not die during a match, and they don't die, then they have a great build. Usually someone like this follows up their own death with "LOL NOOBS TOOK A MINUTE TO KILL ME". Some people look to kill people and not die, so in short if they win the match, their build is great. Along with that some people just want glad points, and if they get a glad point or a fame point, their build is perfect since it did its intended job. Usually when they do this, they don't review what is actually happening or what happened. You have 3 other teamates, who is to say that your team didn't do all the killing and healing and you barely dented the team? I've ran a GG sin and killed basically the entire team and finished off this other ele the warrior was working on for the entire match. At the end, he pretty much took all the credit for killing the ele by saying:"LOL PWN YOU ELE". He ignored everything that happened during that match besides what he did. So he now thinks his build is great, because he won. However he could have been running one attack skill, six healing skills and a res and it wouldn't have matter.

In short: People that don't pay attention to the battle tend to think that their build is better than it is.