Peregrine said:
Again, what you all don't like about powerleveling is that it doesn't include you and doesn't give a rip about some gunner's standards about what should and should not work. It simply does work. It is the general population's solution to imbalance. You know what--I'll take their solution over the other one quite frankly. It's just plain more fun. I went through qufim as a warrior tanking with a great axe while berserked. Yes, that's ghetto. Yes, that's stupid. But boy did the mobs die fast. Powerleveling is used by people you just LOVE to look down on from your sky perch. The only thing wrong with powerleveling is its perception.
Powerleveling is the infield at the derby. While the high society sips their julips up in the stands, some drunk topless woman sees the same race and wins the same money down in the field. They just do it a different way. You know you want to be that drunk topless woman sometimes. Sometimes there's nothing wrong with a drunk topless woman.
Ok USUALLY there's nothing wrong with a drunk topless woman.
Strike that. There's nothing wrong with a drunk topless woman. I mean powerleveling.
I have been in power leveled parties. It was nice sometimes, but never needed and more often than not, one or two of the members were idiots or noobs, but they got exp anyways. Your derby example is more confusing than helping you, I fail to see how you considering people not liking powerleveling to a drunk topless woman. Powerleveling isn't an "alternative leveling technique," in case you haven't been to the dunes lately, at least half of the parties there get powerleveled.
I have also powerleveled people before, always LS members or friends, and it was usually while I was lfg. It was also for the most part from 1-10 or in the dunes. So you see, I've been in all 3 positions, recieving and giving powerleveling, and not being powerleveled; so I'm not some "uninformed jealous elitist" as you seem to try to make your opposition out to be.
There's nothing wrong with it's perception. It's a quick way to get past some sucky levels of your job, but the downsides often outweigh the good from it. People don't get as much time to learn about the basics of their jobs in parties, tanks often miss out on skills (evasion, shield block, parry, etc), some won't learn how to properly play their jobs in non-powerleveled parties. None of that comes with a static.
You still have yet to prove how being in a static/cannon could make someone suck in a normal party. I can understand you being used to some people's play style, but the game isn't complicated enough that you'd suck in an ordinary party solely due to being in a static. More than likely, anyone who sucks because they just got out of a static, sucked before they went into the static. Even the assumption that you'd only be familiar with 1 person's play style is flawed, since at most you'd be used to their macros' calls and 1 skillchain to do. Neither of those is a major reason why you would suck in a normal party.
By your logic, and I use the term loosely, I should be claiming all drk's are gimped because they didn't have the gear or do the damage of Meximan(One word: Insane); that all SAM's suck if they weren't as good as Alyssan was; or that any WAR/NIN who refuses to tank is a wimp because Mithe did it. I'm not claiming any of that, because it's dumb and pointless. We were all in a shortlived static(No RDM's), and it didn't effect our play style for random parties in the slightest. Mithe, Meximan and I were in a semi-static for 2 weeks before that, just because we'd keep getting each other for our parties.
If you're going to make an outrageous claim like powerleveling = statics, one which no one else agrees with, bring some proof. Giving an example, no matter how confusing, isn't proof. Examples are meant to clarify your position, so that people can better understand what you're talking about. So why don't you come up with some kind of proof that statics = powerleveling, then you might have some ground to stand on.
