Why do people bother dodging aoe during trash pulls?

[Nethereal]

I mean you can do that but I'm not going to single target heal the DPS during a pull so if the oGCD AoE isn't enough to keep you off the pavement good luck.

[Shibi]

I can aoe just fine on the move, mate.

I love that about DNC.

[Gemina]

Dodging AoE even if it is non-lethal shows you have enough common courtesy to play the game correctly. It has nothing to do with whether or not the healer will adjust to your stupidity, and everything to do with stop being a lazy PoS, and play your job right.

[Ammokkx]

ignore the thread and move on, people

MPK is a notorious troll who starts threads entirely for the sake of seeing people's reactions and strawmanning himself to bait even further

[Lumivyory]

You know what does less damage than a DPS that had to dodge an AoE? A dead DPS.

[GrizzlyTank]

"Here lieth Mirabelle Weaver, stung to death by an army of wasps trying proving that their stings doth not hurt."

[Starflake]

Dodging AoE even if it is non-lethal shows you have enough common courtesy to play the game correctly. It has nothing to do with whether or not the healer will adjust to your stupidity, and everything to do with stop being a lazy PoS, and play your job right.

This is simply not true. It's also not playing the game "correctly" either. If I can do 1000 DPS or 2000 DPS I will choose 2000 DPS even though I took an aoe or two to the face that nobody ever has to heal. This is exactly what it's like in Expert. In fact, I'd argue it's much more "correct" to stand in aoes if it means not dying (which you almost certainly won't) and doing the most damage because of it.

When it comes to laziness by the way, I advise you to look up a website I will not type out and check out your own performances. Being, more often than not the player with the lowest amount of buttons pressed per minute and poor uptime overall. Might have a thing or two to learn about productivity yourself

[Payadopa]

For the same reason I do mechanics. It's fun. Min-maxing every second of the game isn't. Nice try, though.

[Lumivyory]

When it comes to laziness by the way, I advise you to look up a website I will not type out and check out your own performances. Being, more often than not the player with the lowest amount of buttons pressed per minute and poor uptime overall. Might have a thing or two to learn about productivity yourself

I wish that website would be taken down already.
What happened to, you know, having fun? Who cares how much damage you do. So tired of people always in a rush in casual content, so boring. This is borderline elitist behavior imo, because then such people will bash at you or even kick you because you don't meet their "standards".

Savage content is probably the only place where I'd accept DPS actually trying to do as much damage as they can.

[Starflake]

I wish that website would be taken down already.
What happened to, you know, having fun? Who cares how much damage you do. So tired of people always in a rush in casual content, so boring. This is borderline elitist behavior imo, because then such people will bash at you or even kick you because you don't meet their "standards".

Savage content is probably the only place where I'd accept DPS actually trying to do as much damage as they can.

I guesss the extra depth that website gives to the speedrunning scene, world firsts, and overall improvement of the community doesn't count. I've never in my seven years of raiding in PF and with statics seen anyone get kicked because of that website. You're just making up a boogeyman. The discord is also full of helpful people and based on it, it has spawned a whole network in The Balance which main purpose it to help other players. Some of you guys need to relax and stop pretending this is all just doom and gloom.

The only elitist stance in all this was this other guy calling people lazy sobs and throwing some hypocrisy on there. Anyway, I'm not here to argue, I just wanted to point out the blatant hypocrisy of that person. Signing off.