Quote Originally Posted by Raenryong View Post
S/he's not saying you're an awful person or that you shouldn't be allowed to play how you want though. You just said that Quelling Strikes "makes little to no difference", while Blowfin (quite rightly) suggests that it can actually be an indirect DPS boost situationally as it prevents you having to moderate your threat (and in doing so, lose DPS).

It is a team effort, and a DPS's role within that team is to do the maximum amount of damage possible without failing a mechanic, dying, or pulling threat (normally). Therefore, you want to be pumping out as much damage as possible without failing in one of those three ways - and Quelling Strikes is a great boon to the last of the three.
I didn't say they said I was awful. I more or less said that I know how it works and I choose to play the game my way. Paying my sub allows me that right. I'm not sure how that wasn't clear.

So let me state for the umpteenth time: I KNOW HOW QUELLING STRIKES WORKS. I KNOW THE REPERCUSSIONS OF MY METHOD AND DO NOT CARE AS I LIKE PLAYING MY WAY. PLAYING MY WAY MAKES LITTLE TO NO DIFFERENCE. I HAVE WITNESSED BOTH METHODS. I HAVE USED BOTH METHODS. UNDERSTAND NOW?

I find it funny you say that last part though. Bard isn't strictly DPS. We are a weird support/DD hybrid that wasn't exactly fleshed out, imo. So DPS isn't always our main priority. Sometimes, we need to first SUPPORT others via songs, taking a hit to our damage dealing ability. By you, and apparently others' logic, that'd be "wrong."