Why are low standards for dps acceptable?

[Andrea]

Can't really expect the community to improve when advice isn't given constructively or received graciously.

Serious question though, Should it be the communities job to teach people how to play their supposedly main class when there is already a ton of stuff online?

If someone is too lazy to google "FFXIV Black Mage rotation Heavensward" then clearly they don't really want to learn and are ok with how they are playing that they most likely don't want advice.

It literally takes 10 seconds to google that.

[Moomba33]

Serious question though, Should it be the communities job to teach people how to play their supposedly main class when there is already a ton of stuff online?

If someone is too lazy to google "FFXIV Black Mage rotation Heavensward" then clearly they don't really want to learn and are ok with how they are playing that they most likely don't want advice.

It literally takes 10 seconds to google that.

Honestly? When I first started playing ARR, I never would have thought to look up a guide for playing my job well.
I'm on console with no parser so I never know how my DPS is and I mostly played with friends so I didn't have other people commenting on my performance. Looking back on it now I realize I was pretty terrible for the first few months. I only started improving once I got to 8 man content and saw other people with my job using abilities I ignored so I started making an effort to use them too. I didn't look at any actual guides until Heavensward when I wanted to see recommendations for how to incorporate new abilities.

I guess it isn't really fair to expect other people to teach you how to play, but I can certainly understand how someone could get really far without knowing. Solo instances are not punishing and if you're someone like me who mostly plays single player games looking at a job guide might just not cross your mind.

[DGladius]

Serious question though, Should it be the communities job to teach people how to play their supposedly main class when there is already a ton of stuff online?

If someone is too lazy to google "FFXIV Black Mage rotation Heavensward" then clearly they don't really want to learn and are ok with how they are playing that they most likely don't want advice.

It literally takes 10 seconds to google that.

This is a problem with lots of NA players, they go into party content without putting much effort into knowing how to play their class, have a mentality of doing as little as possible in clearing the duty and then throw a fit when they get called out on it. Is it too much to put in some time to improve yourself and research your class and the content you wanna queue for before going into it?