Why are low standards for dps acceptable?

[Radacci]

I have to say I think TheUltimateSeph has some valid points here. With the amount of content the game offers and presents to you it's very easy to miss things, especially if you're new to the genre and don't take an interest in things like patchnotes..

you're not new, if you're lv 60. if you're lv 60 and don't know about job quests, that falls under the category: "you rushed through the game without enjoying it!" that people seem to dislike....but yet defend capped people, who don't know anything about the game. you don't need to read patch notes, to know about job quests.
there's quite a lot of dungeons you need to do, to get to fractal - why wouldn't you have some minimum expectations? you'd think they would learn something during all that time. but im sure there's plenty of shitty healers, who are so bad, that the pld had to heal-tank, and blm support-heal the entire run; and people get away with it, cause people don't wanna step on any sensitive toes.
Or that amdapor city run, where SMN only used energy drain, ruin and Miasma II (out of range, so it didn't hit anything) he ignored every suggestion i made, and didn't improve in the slightest; me and another player started joking about it, and SMN left, so obviously he was reading, but chose to ignore every suggestion.

When it came to skills I found reading the tooltips gave me an understanding of the ability, but weaving it into my rotations effectively took me more time. Maybe I'm a little slower or less intelligent than some, that's cool by me, I spent ages pouring over the dragoon advice thread and trying to work out and remember what all the abbreviations were and how they related to the icons in game and how I could shift my toolbars to optimal positions. I know I took a while to work out how to combine what I had and piece it all together to output some decent damage and I'm pretty sure many parties would have seen me in my learning phase and thought "he could be doing this better" but now i'm at a place where I know what I'm doing and despite knowing I could do some things better feel confident in my abilities. It definitely took me a while though. I think everyone has to accept there's a wide range of players out there with varying skills, abilities and interests and without knowing exactly who is on the other end behind the avatar in game I don't like to assume anything.

if there was more people like you, who are honest with themselves and their learning curve, and trying to improve, etc, there would be no issues; but people treat suggestions, as poison - refuse to listen, learn and improve.