But...I...I don't wanna DPS, I'm a healer...

[Cynfael]

Call me old fashioned but the healers job is to heal. If they're keeping me alive that's all I need. If they wanna DPS go for it, but I'm not gonna rage about it. Same with tanks. Hold aggro. That's your job. Don't need to go all "man mode" and be tryhard DPS. That's thing I dislike most about this game.

The thing with this game is that the behavior you characterize as tryhard is simply...rational.

In games where healing and tanking are full-time jobs, the occasional debuff is about all that's expected. In games like this one, which uses roles but doesn't pigeonhole players as thoroughly, not doing these tryhard things usually indicates that the player is watching Netflix or checking Facebook.

[Fevelle]

The thing with this game is that the behavior you characterize as tryhard is simply...rational.

In games where healing and tanking are full-time jobs, the occasional debuff is about all that's expected. In games like this one, which uses roles but doesn't pigeonhole players as thoroughly, not doing these tryhard things usually indicates that the player is watching Netflix or checking Facebook.

And how is this bad? Did you die? Because if not, they're doing the minimum, and the minimum is MORE than enough in the DF content, like it or not. Personally I DPS a lot in my runs, though I don't know my numbers because I don't use parsers, but having a "rule" that doing DPS is needed and you should feel ashamed if you don't want to is infuriating to me.

[Cynfael]

And how is this bad? Did you die? Because if not, they're doing the minimum, and the minimum is MORE than enough in the DF content, like it or not. Personally I DPS a lot in my runs, though I don't know my numbers because I don't use parsers, but having a "rule" that doing DPS is needed and you should feel ashamed if you don't want to is infuriating to me.

Perhaps because I am paying attention to what I'm doing and am making a good faith effort to help my party do as well as it can. Is it bad to expect that my fellow party members will make at least a reasonable effort to contribute?

Players who do the bare minimum, even in DF, are expecting everyone else to carry them through to successful and timely completion of objectives, and that is shameful and infuriating.