Things to think about before you call someone "Bad"

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Not 99%, but there's seriously more than normal here. Anyone that's played any other mmos at an average skill level and come here will tell you this game has the highest number of awful players ever. People have been saying that about this community since 2.0.

People complain about bads in all games but not to this extent because theres just so many.

What I've noticed is FFXIV tends to have the most stalwart defenders for under-performance. You have people who still insist healer DPS isn't a big deal and only shaves "a couple seconds off a dungeon" or whatsoever nonsense. The tank not using CDs? They must be new! There always seems to be an excuse. Of course this isn't unique to FFXIV, but I've never seen people defend it so much.

[Vahlnir]

What I've noticed is FFXIV tends to have the most stalwart defenders for under-performance. You have people who still insist healer DPS isn't a big deal and only shaves "a couple seconds off a dungeon" or whatsoever nonsense. The tank not using CDs? They must be new! There always seems to be an excuse. Of course this isn't unique to FFXIV, but I've never seen people defend it so much.

I mean, as far as healers go...if it's between multitasking and failing to keep people alive and just straight healing I'd have to go with the latter instead of the former. Good healers can juggle, but I do think some people are simply better off healing only. I've seen more than a few healers who have tried to dps and couldn't keep their party members alive. Thankfully not a majority, or at least not in my experience. But still, I agree that healers should be able to do both. Tanks can do the same when it comes to threat generation and dps.

[SannaR]

I mean, as far as healers go...if it's between multitasking and failing to keep people alive and just straight healing I'd have to go with the latter instead of the former. Good healers can juggle, but I do think some people are simply better off healing only. I've seen more than a few healers who have tried to dps and couldn't keep their party members alive. Thankfully not a majority, or at least not in my experience. But still, I agree that healers should be able to do both. Tanks can do the same when it comes to threat generation and dps.

The part for me with healers that don't dps are the ones that wont even if there is no damage going out but there's a dps check happening. That was and has been defended as being ok by some in some of the old healer dps threads. Like during the dps phase against Diablos in Dun Scathe or other instances like it.