Sins Elite Elitism

[Quikster]

Heavily edited the above to the "sweet spots": I hate quoting large posts in full.

At the end, you claim you never say it to be "bad" to use it... but in the beginning you said it is a "sign of newbness". These two sentences seem to be in opposition to one another.
Nothing wrong with being a newb bro.
Also, "First, I would likely never pug spots on any amrath run."

But, you said, in response to someone else saying they'd take him on their run:

correct, Likely Id never pug anything thats a 6 man, I occasionally do but not very often. So if I did, and the ranger hit the lfm, short of someone else hitting the lfm that I knew and liked, Id take him. Why? Because I like running with people I like over people I dont know.

So which is it? You'd pug him in, or you wouldn't?
Like I said, I would take him
Then the last tidbit:



To this, I fully agree with you. Just because the MyDDO "snapshot" looks legit, it is in no way a guarantee of player skill or cooperativeness.

However, I will add that the inverse is not necessarily true. While MyDDO doesn't have a "Player Skill" rating anywhere, gear choices, build choices, etc. can be a satisfactory display of "lack of player skill". And its more than just checking HP/Fortification/Date of Snapshot Update. Its looking over all the pieces of gear, confirming lack of haggle gear, and noting that it is instead the player's "Combat attire", and then still finding it to be... well, lacking.
Um, I think your inverse here is off but whatever I get your point. Here I disagre. The build coulda been rolled and been made poorly. However, he coulda still learned to play and figured, *** Ill roll with it till I tr. I dont want to spend the money to lr when im just going to tr.
But in sum: Whether or not you agree with MyDDO usage, you would have *not* accepted this person into your group, like the majority of other thread posters have said? You don't pug Amrath, after all.

As I said, I would have accepted an unknown ranger into the group no matter what his hp, if I had been pugging. Yes I pug amrath quests about as often as anythign else. Hardly ever. That doesnt mean I dont ever pug it, I hardly ever pug it.

Anyone who's got half a brain can tell when someone has swapped out their con item for a haggle item or their minos for a a teleport mask etc.

But as an example, I've seen a WF caster in myddo wearing a helmet of inner focus and a moderate fort belt. When seeing that you need to assume that they are wearing that gear intentionally and lack toughness.

Yes myddo is a guessing game sometimes, but it's also a good primer on the character and sometimes the player too. No matter what you do, if you look on myddo and see a character with 8 or 10 con they're going to be squishy no matter what gear they put on.

Im not sure I see the problem with the above gear set up.