Just realized something: FFXIV is a terrible DPS player's DREAM come true...

[RichardButte]

You don't need meters to tell when a bad DPS is bad.

How do you ascertain how much damage they're doing vs. the (at least one) other DPS in the party?

I don't personally know what the rotations of all of the DPS classes look like at level 70, nor do I have the time while I'm healing, tanking or DPSing to scrutinize them by watching their character's animations instead of my own rotation, AoEs, HP bars, etc.

So HOW are you determining, beyond a shadow of a doubt, which of the DPS in the party is doing far less damage than they should?

The attacks for each class are distinctive enough that if you've played them or done some research on them...

I have not, and nor am I GOING to do so.

You don't need to do "research" to know when the healer let someone die or when the tank isn't holding aggro, and once again, I don't have time to watch what another DPS player is doing when I have my own rotation and CDs to watch.

And to further crush this notion into the dirt, I've spent plenty of time learning DPS classes in dungeons and I KNOW I wasn't very good at them, yet I have NEVER been called out for performing like crap on a DPS. I still regularly botch the hell out of my rotation as a MCH. I'm learning, but it's a lot to put into muscle memory. Again, NEVER been called out.

Tank and healer? If I screw up, I hear about it.