"This is my playstyle" is a poor argument for being bad.

[Jamein]

Is this thread really then about a very small minority of players who play to their own tune? Perhaps I'm just extraordinarily lucky, but I've only run into a handful (maybe 2?) of people who are there to do their own thing. Most people seem to try and make some effort at least. Their efforts may not result in anything spectacular, but they do what they can.

Honestly, if you are constantly running across people who "could and SHOULD be doing better, but just aren't", maybe the issue is with you and your expectations are set far too high for encounters with random people.

Go into Alex normal, turn on parser and check out what numbers people pull. Do this over and over and eventually you really start to see how BADLY some people are doing. People in FULL eso gear sometimes pull around 500-600 DPS (and I've had a number pulling 200-500 with eso weapons/gear which is absolutely unforgivable as this is auto attack damage), this is pre-heavensward numbers. This is either really bad play/lack of game knowledge or pure lazyness and basically means unless the rest of the DPS do above AVERAGE DPS, you aint clearing. So what it comes down too is there are a good percentage of players, who get carried. No one is asking these players to do 1k+ DPS outside of savage, but if you are constantly below average then you could, and should, do better because it only requires you to get a good grasp on the BASICS of your class.

I'm far from expecting too much from people, if the majority of the playerbase could pull an average amount I would be pretty happy but that is not the case, plenty don't even come close and underperform by a mile.