To stay with my savage raid group, or leave...

[ShaneDawn]

I only skimmed through the text as I am at uni atm, but I got the feel the biggest problems you are having are people not showing up, slow progression and people venting/disrespecting you.

My advice: if raiding is no longer fun, then don't do it. It's not supposed to be a huge chore at the end of the day. I wouldn't wprry about your dps: at this point of gearing, it's down to your dps players underperforming or you guys pulling the mobs ineffectively, but I doubt your dps is to blame. Personally I would compare the dps numbers with other similar comps, and see if you can do bigger pulls somehow or use healer aggro to pack groups up.

[Isius]

I only skimmed through the text as I am at uni atm, but I got the feel the biggest problems you are having are people not showing up, slow progression and people venting/disrespecting you.

My advice: if raiding is no longer fun, then don't do it. It's not supposed to be a huge chore at the end of the day. I wouldn't wprry about your dps: at this point of gearing, it's down to your dps players underperforming or you guys pulling the mobs ineffectively, but I doubt your dps is to blame. Personally I would compare the dps numbers with other similar comps, and see if you can do bigger pulls somehow or use healer aggro to pack groups up.

Right, I do want to raid, but starting to feel less inclided to stay with this group for several reasons. I am not really worried about my pld's dps at all. Pld is really just a meatshield anyways, because of the way the devs designed the job now, but the only thing I could do is slowly replace more and more of my pentamelds with ilvl210 str accessories if my group would even allow it. But I do feel the Drk should be the one holding hate up to phase 4. I see no point having a pld doing it, and flashing for zero dmg, while a drk can do it, and do dmg the sametime, and l also see little point for tanks to be in tank stance at all in those 4 phases as long as they can group the mobs together fine, which that is not even a big deal with the stun from the Gobwalker, but both those suggestions were ignored.

But I am not really worried about my dps. But I just feel the healers always want me to stay in tank stance all the time because they always want that crutch to cover thier lack of healing. I doubt I could even play a War with this group anyways. Majority of the time I feel like I get panic heals then played out healing.

But as for dps for the group as a whole. We are on average around 200-300 short on dps requirements to beat A2S.

Blm's dps is good, but they are kinda impatient sometimes flaring before tanks can get aggro, or doing 10k crits with Fire IV's at the start, they rarely target the snipers first, a stationary mob that already has a huge preset aggro on healers anyways, or doesn't even bother clumping with the group even knowing they might pull a mob. Another suggestion I asked, oddly ignored. Pulling mobs away from the pack just kills everyones dps, and flash has a hard time covering blm crits right off the bat.

Our Bard is solid player, and good with dps.

Dragoon I feel is lacking behind on dps.

Ninja is in Gobwalker but dps is fine, would be better if I played my Warrior.

Dark Knight I feel is...sometimes all over the place.

Astro is whatever main healer.

Scholar is sometimes really good for A2S when he spreads his dots from a invulnerability up target.

But yeah raiding feels less fun the more I stay with this group.