I want to play (and enjoy) machinist but I have some major concerns

Woah there. I can assure you that the community is generally pretty great personality-wise and I've never seen a DPS kicked from the group that wasn't DCed or something myself. It's not a regular, every-day occurrence by any means for a DPS to be kicked for petty reasons. There's usually a very good reason from what I've seen.

People make such mountains over mole-hills when it comes to things like the DF. :l

Edit: Heck, a DPS was DCed from my DF group a few days back right before the last boss, but we all (as total strangers in DF) decided to wait it out and see if he could come back... And he did come back. :p Nobody was mean or whatever about it.

Yeah, I practically breathe the duty finder, and the only time I've seen people kicked is when they've been disconnected for an extended amount of time or if they're colossal jerks, never for poor play.

Hell, just a few days ago I had a Ninja do nothing but Spinning Edge > Gust Slash > Aeolian Edge (the filler combo), regardless if we were fighting a boss or pulling several packs at the same time. No one said a word about it (though I was tempted) and the Ninja remained with us from start to finish. Likewise, had a Bard last reset too who refused to do anything but Heavy and Straight Shots, no rude behaviour or kicks towards her. Datacenter Chaos sounds like a paradise judging by the horror stories I regularly hear. :p

It seems like your stressed out to try DPS because you don't want to make people mad? Is that what i'm gathering here?

In that case, i have the opposite aversion to healing and tanking classes.

If i go too long without healing something, i feel like i've gotten rusty and will be useless in a group. So i try to queue as heals every now and then. I'm also the overbearing type of healer. (is galvanize up? I should cast succor again. Oh no the tank is dying, i need to spam lustrate. The group is taking minor amounts of damage, i need to use sacred soil and then succor spam. We only have 15 minutes of protect left! I need to recast it or we might lose it mid fight!)

I'll never tank, though

I always get myself familiar with a place as DPS first, then i'll check it out as a healer.

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Originally Posted by SovereignAegis

I originally was coming to play summoner but then I realized it was actually a watered down subpar DOT based class...

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Summoners were one of the best dps in the game before the whole spell speed fiasco on the gear last couple patches, you know...

I've never seen this either. I've seen people kicked for any number of reasons, from being afk, to trolling, to any number of things. I've seen dps kicked for literally doing the bare minimum (think a smn doing nothing but ruin over, and over, and over again), but I've never seen a dps kicked for not perfectly optimizing their rotation, or pulling hate, or w/e. Your data center just sounds super aggressive.

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Originally Posted by Averax

If i go too long without healing something, i feel like i've gotten rusty and will be useless in a group.

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A good work-around for that is to use DF to run the easier dungeons first, then the harder and etc. until you feel more familiar with your skills and such. That's what I did and the class felt natural to me again pretty quickly. You also need to not be afraid of wipes. That used to be my worry, but I've found that DF people are pretty cool about wiping as long as the person supposedly causing it is nice and apologetic. I've never had people get really mad at me before for causing a wipe, and I learn pretty quickly from it to boot.

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Originally Posted by Miya_Carbuncle

A good work-around for that is to use DF to run the easier dungeons first, then the harder and etc. until you feel more familiar with your skills and such. That's what I did and the class felt natural to me again pretty quickly. You also need to not be afraid of wipes. That used to be my worry, but I've found that DF people are pretty cool about wiping as long as the person supposedly causing it is nice and apologetic. I've never had people get really mad at me before for causing a wipe, and I learn pretty quickly from it to boot.

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I come from a much more unforgiving community.

your loss im going from war to mch just roll with the punches like everyone esle.

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Originally Posted by Velthice

I too deeply care about what others think of me and my role in a video game and let that extreme, crippling pressure influence my every decision.

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Dayum

Please check one:
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OP needs a Snickers or maybe a gallon of margaritas for all that salt.

Trash talk DPs but want to try playing it. Wow. I hope I never get you in any of my parties.