DPS requirements to unlock duties?

[Rongway]

Lulz. I know at least 7 people that would drop this game so fast if they had to beat on a Dummy first. Like do you want to beat on a dummy? Nah me either. Cmon man what do you expect? People want the fight, not the dummy. I'm not saying people are ready ...but that is the rational going on.

You don't want to be compelled to blow up a thing that just sits there doing nothing before you get to fight the real thing that does the things and all that. But

If you can't beat a static dps check on a dummy you definitely shouldn't be queueing for whatever dungeon/trial that dummy is based on, because you either don't have enough gear or you don't know how to play your job.

is so right. If you can't beat a basic damage check on a stationary object that doesn't fight back, there is absolutely no way you can legitimately beat a damage check on a moving object that can kill you inside of two shots.

I am all for teaching people how to handle the mechanics in fights to which they are new. When they're ready. But in no reasonable scenario is someone going to put out more damage while dancing around floor patterns trying to stay alive than he would against a stationary, inactive, dummy. If someone goes into a fight lacking the gear or technique that a dummy expects him to have, he is asking for a bad time and condemning seven other people to the same.

It's not about

What I read, boiled down to... "DPS hard check for n00bs" = "Save veterans time and headache"

If there are seven or eight new people and only six of them have the gear and technical foundation upon which to heap the stress of mechanics and fine ability alignment, the one or two people who already can't meet the kill requirements against the easiest possible setup will prevent the prepared people from ever even seeing the later phases of the fight.

Which brings us back to

Lulz. I know at least 7 people that would drop this game so fast if they had to beat on a Dummy first. Like do you want to beat on a dummy? Nah me either. Cmon man what do you expect? People want the fight, not the dummy. I'm not saying people are ready ...but that is the rational going on.

only now it's not about the one person who doesn't want to lulz beat on a dummy before he has to mechanics. Because clearly, if the person in question can't blow up a dummy, he won't get to see very many mechanics anyway, and the worst part is that neither will the other seven people who are ready to kick some ass and don't think it's a lulzing matter.