Am I the only one fed up with DPS obsession?

I think any good player is going to push the limits and potentials of their job within their expected role no matter what duty they are in. I'm actually glad savage requires this. Sticking to a very strict role in the sense of "healers just heal, tanks just mitigate" becomes ultimately very boring in my opinion and allowing the potential to transcend this roles and utilize the full potential of the job is what allows this game to be great. Cleric stance is an insanely good utility for well versed healers and I'll take a healer or tank that can push their limits and are willing to do whatever it takes over one who is not any day of the week. Once you do savage raid content the silly and arbitrary "this is my role" stuff goes out the window because it isn't about you, it's about the team and if you aren't in it for the team them savage is not the place for you. This is what separates the good players from the great players.

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Originally Posted by Dante_V

Sticking to a very strict role in the sense of "healers just heal, tanks just mitigate" becomes ultimately very boring in my opinion

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are dps who only dps also boring?

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Originally Posted by Tint

are dps who only dps also boring?

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Implying DPS can do anything else? No, the pitiful 500 cross-classed heals don't count.

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

Implying DPS can do anything else? No, the pitiful 500 cross-classed heals don't count.

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that was not the question. his profile says he is ninja. a ninja can't do anything else than dps. so after his logic he is playing a boring class...

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Originally Posted by Tint

that was not the question. his profile says he is ninja. a ninja can't do anything else than dps. so after his logic he is playing a boring class...

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Maybe if they'd give ninjas the healing art the NPCs get, he'd be allowed to!

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Originally Posted by Tint

that was not the question. his profile says he is ninja. a ninja can't do anything else than dps. so after his logic he is playing a boring class...

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Dps have more interesting rotations/mechanics to compensate and I don't just mean with combat either. Many fights in casual dungeons give mechanics to DPS where I heard it was the opposite in other mmos.
Tanks and healers just have to do tanking and healing in casual dungeons, dps usually get some kind of mechanic at least because SE are deluded by the community into thinking healing and tanking is so much harder that they need to avoid giving them mechanics in casual dungeons even though we should be competent enough to deal with new and interesting challenges post 50.

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Originally Posted by VargasVermillion

Tanks and healers just have to do tanking and healing in casual dungeons

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Or they could give them tanking and healing "rotations"...

question does op think any body but himself. everyone want have fun it doesn't matter role dps, tanking or healer. if someone have fun shouldn't that matter.

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Or they could give them tanking and healing "rotations"...

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not as simple as that, tanks and healers do in a sense but it's challenge comes from reacting to what the bosses do, casual dungeons often lack specific mechanics for these two roles so you do pretty much the same thing throughout, raids/trials are more thought out for those roles. Dps have longer rotations because essentially dealing damage is the end goal and can be done in a variety of ways, healing and tanking however is fairly limited in how you can implement what they are required to do, like healing damage or holding aggro this is even more the case for reducing damage. most 'mechanics in casual content is designed for dps to react to.

Because with more DPS, theres less raid damage. Which means less healing.

Higher dps (unless you push phases early) is really the only way content gets easier.