Dungeon Anxiety

[Urthdigger]

I really wish people would stop citing DPS being non-critical as an advantage. Just because the tanks and healers CAN carry you through most content doesn't mean we like doing it. And we DO notice when folks aren't carrying their weight.

Saying "Oh, you can slack off on DPS and nobody will care lol" is why we have so many shitty DPS.

[PetiteMalFleur]

Saying "Oh, you can slack off on DPS and nobody will care lol" is why we have so many shitty DPS.

I care and I will say something but usually get ignored. A lot of dps are leveling for the sake of leveling and don't care at all about optimizing. I had one SMN tell me flat out they macro all three spells to one key and just don't care about their dps. They just wanted to watch Netflix, hit one key and that's it. Unfortunately that's often the norm. Tanks and healers tend to take their role more seriously since the rest of the party can't clear if they are that bad. It just isn't worth making a big deal out of it because it makes the run stressful over how total strangers want to play and it's easier to just move on.

If it makes you feel any better those bad dps get eaten alive when they try to tackle endgame and don't know how to play their own class. I've seen groups humiliate dd for letting the Paladin do higher dps. People do run parsers but you can also tell when things die slow and see when the dps are letting their buffs drop. People may not announce the numbers but they'll let the entire group, their fc, and linkshells know if someone is being out-dps'd by a healer or tank.

[SuggaBerry]

I actually like being a healer and I would love to actually learn to get really good at it. Its just discouraging when someone cusses you out and is rude to you.