Stowaways in High-End Content?

[LittleImp]

You still can't deny that doesn't consider gear shouldn't be used as the end all be all for someones grade. Even if you did do things perfectly your result would sill be stunted by someone who also did everything AND had fortune of a fully gear set.

You can hit the upper 25% in crafted gear, sometimes even fairly late into the tier. A moderately skilled player shouldn't have too much trouble hitting at least 50%, regardless of gear. I have never seen a fight where being geared and playing well would land you in the lower 10%, ever.

and as I said to Vidu. This isn't a game that built around absolute perfection in class performance it helps but if it was as necessary as mechanical performance things like act or cactbot would be allowed. don't believe me? see how my % was as a healer in the last expansion's savages. Still cleared most of them. The difference of a clear and pass then wasn't me improving as much as it was people, including me, not screwing up the mechanics.

You cleared many, many months after the tier launched, probably while overgeared. Raiding right now isn't just about "not screwing up mechanics". The DPS check in the P4S doorboss is 48.3k, recruiting anyone that you aren't confident can contribute their fair share to meet that check is absolutely foolish. Not to mention, it's not that hard to find someone that can play their job AND do mechanics.

The subject of this thread was talking about people entering parties not knowing how mechanics work, not under peforming in their class. I have personally rarely seen a party that can actually get through the fight without messing up that doesn't also clear. Maybe people should wait until they actually get to the damage check enrage before chanting about up-time and efficiency. Maybe if people weren't so caught up in third party social credit score people could actually focus on where they are standing? the thing that actually matters.

It isn't fair to criticize others for trapping you when you're playing at a level that effectively REQUIRES other people to overperform to clear the fight with you, be it in healing or damage.
You absolutely will not be able to pass something like the P4S door-boss at your current level of play without significant gearing. It doesn't matter how well you are pressing WASD for easy mechanics if you aren't contributing a fair share of damage / mitigation; Low damage is usually a sign of someone who is having to spend too much of their focus executing mechanics anyway, so I have significant doubts about your supposed consistency. EDIT: Yeah, you take vulns from avoidable mechanics in 4/4 of your EX1 kills, and 8/10 of your EX2 kills. You're not being honest with yourself, or anyone here.