About Beater issue - people should remember that only a very few people in front line raid group(s) knew Kirito's face (probably less than 100). It doesn't seem these people are putting his photo on wanted posters, so the majority of players (and even some of top guilds' members) have no idea who beater is. All they knew is that there are some hated beaters, one of them is a sword user dressed in black, which is too vague to tell who is who. Black Cats and Tian Hands didn't know who he was at all, although TH members heard of Kirito-the-beater before; The guys in eps 5. didn't even know who Kirito and Asuna were (here we have the sub-leader of top guild and supposed to be one of the top idol in SAO, compared to her, who a puny little beater is...). That's why it wouldn't be a big problem for Kirito to party with random people if that's necessary. He's a solo in the sense that he isn't in a guild, or in a fixed group (with friends). He could still be in random PuGs as long as he doesn't let them know of his beater status. There shouldn't be a witch-hunt, either.
And as people have mentioned - Kirito is a very strong player (highest level, fast reaction coupled with experiences, after all he was calling boss' attacks out for raid group in first level). Even if some people think he's a jerk, they can't deny they need his strength. When facing a life or death situation, or when you need to kill a boss as soon as possible (which means least to no wipe) good items are something they only consider after winning. It probably have gone like this - level 2, they are picking top level players for the boss raid => Asuna and Agil tell them to pick Kirito since he's strong => some other beta testers (who was hiding their beta tester status) among top level players also agree with that since he was taking the burden for them => non-beta testers accept since they can't simply remove Asuna, Agil and others from the raid. Repeat that for the next 10s level, and the old front-liners are used to his presence in the raid, the new front-liners don't know that he is a beater, problem solved.
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Originally Posted by zaz122
The way I see Kirito's relationship with the other front line guilds is the same way you view that one PuBy in a guild raid in WoW.
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Off-topic, but what's a PuBy?... did someone invent that term within last 5-6 months when I was away from WoW ._."