Quote Originally Posted by FunkyBunch View Post
Even if your AoE is weaker than your single target, if you're single targeting you're actually causing a group DPS loss despite having a higher personal DPS.
In a pull of 5-6, every single class benefits from using AoE. Death Blossom may be weak, but it's still 100 potency. 500-600 is only rivaled by Mutilate, which takes a full 30 seconds to match what you can do in ~2.

So I definitely agree with the idea of AoE being used in bigger pulls, as well, but it *is* worth noting that certain targets should be a priority, and killing them quicker can contribute to group dps. That big dumb crystal dog in Pharos Hard, for example, does obnoxious AoE targeted on not-tank targets. If that's the BLM, dps loss. If I, as a Dragoon, do a single-target rotation to "burn" that down (HT>CT>FT with gsk hitting everything), it ends up being beneficial to the raid before I start spreading dots, for example! (Though I generally will only do this if I have a ranged dps with me; if it's double melee idgaf)

But in general, yeah, if you're not doing AoE, you're a scrub. Plain and simple, and I do honestly think that, if you ask them to AoE and they refuse, it should be grounds for kicking them. Kicking a tank who can't hold hate and refuses to fix and causes wipes is cool. Kicking a healer who can't keep people alive is fine. Kicking someone who absolutely sucks at damage? That's somehow crossing a line. I don't get that.