What are the most common reasons people don't dps?

[Vyriah]

People say this all the time, and every time they do I always ask "what's fun about standing around 75% of the time doing nothing?"

I never get an answer.

What's fun about playing a video game like it's your work place ?

I like the strategic, team coordination part of MMORPG. Not doing an action doesn't mean not doing anything, people usually are paying attention to what happen in the fight. I'm not sure what's so fun about hitting a pretermined set of skills in the exact same ordre no matter what the situation either.

[VanilleFang]

What's fun about playing a video game like it's your work place ?

That's answering a question with a question. And that question is kind of a strawman...

Literally no one has said you should treat it like a work place or anything of that nature. The only thing people have said is that if you are a healer you should at least be useful to your team. Sure you can cast cure every 6 seconds but... that's not only incredibly wasteful but it's also ignoring 90% of your kit. I can't think of any conceivable way that you can play a healer in this game and not have ample downtime between healing. Like has been asked many, many times before is why do healers feel like it's okay for them to just stand around for large amounts of times but don't think it's okay for tanks to do the same. And why should BRDs/MCH use Refresh or Tactician?

Also, standing around is not strategic in any way. The battles in this game are majority scripted and standing around "paying attention to what is happening" can be accomplished while casting a Stone.

The "fun" comes from trying to optimize your damage while using the best healing tool for the given situation. If I don't DPS then all I have to do is cast Cure II.

[Tridus]

What's fun about playing a video game like it's your work place ?

Nothing. Which is why I prefer not to deal with people who are incompetent and try to argue their way into doing as little as possible, thus creating more work for me to get things done.

[Avatre]

Nothing. Which is why I prefer not to deal with people who are incompetent and try to argue their way into doing as little as possible, thus creating more work for me to get things done.

Your work sounds like my work! Cleaning up other people's messes when you're out sick is so much fun. /sarcasm

[Tridus]

Your work sounds like my work! Cleaning up other people's messes when you're out sick is so much fun. /sarcasm

Every work over a certain size, lol! Today I got a ticket come to me because someone couldn't get permissions assigned on a network share. I'm a software developer. There's an entire support desk for that. Six people had looked at it and couldn't figure out what to do, so it still got to me.

I mean, WTF? Apparently nobody involved decided to remote into the computer in question and look at the problem directly.

At the end of the day, people either care, or they don't. You can tell which is which by the effort invested.

[Avatre]

At the end of the day, people either care, or they don't. You can tell which is which by the effort invested.

Worst part is when it managerial level that "knows" what to do...but severely screws things up causing what should have been a 30min job turning into a 3 hours job.