DPS mentality in MMOs

[EaMett]

No. Just... no.

A DPS should not stop performing their role because of a failing on the part of the tank. DPS at this point all have many options to keep their emnity under control with every job except ninja having access to an agro dump, and every job except bard and machinist having access to Diversion. However if a DPS is using their tools and a tank isn't holding hate, the DPS should not be expected to just sit around with a thumb up their butt doing nothing, the tank, in that case, needs to be doing their job and holding agro, because at the end of the day, that's the tank's primary job. Anything the DPS is doing is all their only to help the tank perform that role.

There's a thread somewhere that goes in depth about this over and over again so feel free to search the forums for it, lets not side track this one with the same stuff over again.

Bottom line is that party survivability trumps all and the only one with any control over their own enmity is the dps himself. Your enmity your responsibility. The aggro puller gets the blame for pulling aggro the tank gets the blame for capping DPS.

Just because FF14 can be forgiving if you pull aggro doesn't mean it's your right. If you pull aggro on a boss/primal and he cleaves and wipes the party when you could have just stopped dpsing and still cleared, you are at fault for not sticking your fingers up your butt. Your tank is to blame for capping your dps, potentially making you hit enrage, so on and so forth. But again, your enmity your responsibility. Your DPS is not more important than party survivability.

That was the tldr, there's much more to this topic than what I just posted (pertaining to party goal priorities, group effort, etc.) but don't want to reiterate info that is already somewhere in an appropriate thread on the topic.