DPS is the job of DPS.

[Hestzhyen]

Same just now.
Especially sad when they are 70 and wearing mentor crown. Players who are new to WHM will adapt that behavior because if a mentor does it, it has to be right, right?

If that was the case, I'd get a lot less flak for giving polite advice. Or acknowledged at all in most cases.

I don't even bother telling people they can DPS as healer any more, most of them ignore me and the ones who don't give me some snippy variant of "you don't pay my sub". Holy crap guys I'm not telling you to do some high-level min-max and heal as little as possible but if you're going to stand around like dead weight or spam heals on a tank that loses maybe 1% of their HP every 3 seconds, you can definitely make better use of your own time by throwing out some damage.

[Rilifane]

If that was the case, I'd get a lot less flak for giving polite advice. Or acknowledged at all in most cases.

I don't even bother telling people they can DPS as healer any more, most of them ignore me and the ones who don't give me some snippy variant of "you don't pay my sub". Holy crap guys I'm not telling you to do some high-level min-max and heal as little as possible but if you're going to stand around like dead weight or spam heals on a tank that loses maybe 1% of their HP every 3 seconds, you can definitely make better use of your own time by throwing out some damage.

I know that not everyone listens to advice, be it from mentors or others.
But people definitely tend to adapt behaviour they observe. Ever had that moment where you just *knew* someone didn't know the mechanic and was just doing what everyone else is doing? That's what I'm talking about. It happens frequently in pug content because people are too shy, too unsure or just too indifferen to actually ask something. So they will just silently adapt something they observe and be done with it. Don't tell me you never observed that I won't believe you for a second.
And someone wearing a mentor crown is definitely more of a silent example than someone not wearing it.
It's not always about actively given advice, you know?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

...
Ever had that moment where you just *knew* someone didn't know the mechanic and was just doing what everyone else is doing?
...

I did this in... uh, the name of the dungeon escapes me...

Was in a run with rl friends doing it blind.
It's the heavensward one with the vinegaroon type boss who throws the slimes around.

Saw a colored marker come up on me and everyone started running toward me...
This must be a stack marker! I thought to myself.