Why are low standards for dps acceptable?

[Lego3400]

but this is an mmo, not a solo-player game

if a player do his job wrong, i will tell him how to play
if someone don't do the mechanics, i will tell him what to do


someone can't play and the other 3 have to deal with it, or leave?
this kind of thinking is horribly wrong, sry


when i do team-sports, i will always give my best, i don't want to loose with my team
so why i can't do this in an online-game?


the picture with the tic-tac-toe game says it all

There is a fine line between playing the game wrong (IE: Not using a skill at all) and not playing up to your standards (Not using a skill as often as you think it should be used despite victory)

[Archaell]

There is a fine line between playing the game wrong (IE: Not using a skill at all) and not playing up to your standards (Not using a skill as often as you think it should be used despite victory)

The main issue is that people want to get the content done. It is better to just carry the bad than trying to reform them. Funny story - I got few times scolded for explaining skills and rotations. Players just want to end the suffering as fast as possible, without thinking about the possibility of meeting the underperforming player again in the future.

As evil as it may sound I would like to see the duty finder matching players of similar skill together, just for a week or two, as the "feedback" on the forums would be really interesting to read.

One of my tanks today told me that I was the best dps in the group. At first it made me happy... then I realised I was playing the healer. Where would this situation be on your "fine line"? We cleared the dungeon, eventually, but when you do your best, risking tank's death to speed up things, while the mobs still die at snail pace, it can be hardly considered fun. (One dps was similarly geared as I was and the other one was about 10 ilvl bellow mine)

[AnaviAnael]

There is a fine line between playing the game wrong (IE: Not using a skill at all) and not playing up to your standards (Not using a skill as often as you think it should be used despite victory)

But this is what a lot of us are saying. Like someone else said, nobody's expecting savage tier damage in DF. All we want is for people to play properly.