So this game has dps checks but we can't talk about our dps in game?

[Michieltjuhh]

Buddy, me not doing the best of damage rotations isnt the issue here. But what youre implying is that this game's "dps check wipes" occur because everyone wasnt performing super optimally. "Oh I know I've been putting out the best damage, that must mean its everybody else's fault and I therefore have to blame them for the wipe". This is a straight up childish excuse with dps checks, theres tons of factors on why wipes could happen during them; too many people dead during the phase, nobody did an LB3, almost everyone in the group have the rez debuff etc. The fights allow margin of error but what you're telling me (and pretty much what I'm hearing from most people whom are for parsing) is that everybody and I mean EVERYBODY was just completely brain dead and didnt press their damage buttons!?

The entire party isnt required for ever single schmuck in the group to output maximum damage to clear a dps check phase. You dont wipe because Bimmy and Jimmy alone didnt do optimal numbers. The game gives you enough leeway to clear them as long as everyone contributes to just dealing damage. So yes you are expected to pull your own weight. You're just not expected to also run a marathon while you're at it.

Mate, you sound like you've never raided in this game. You also keep ignoring people telling you how it really is.

This game's raiding is an almost exclusive dps check. After the first 2 days, the puzzles have been solved, and the boss mechanics are never actually very challenging after people figured out the strategy and then everyone and their mother copies those optimized strategies and suddenly the only thing that still really goes wrong is people doing too low dps.

Now, how they do too low dps is often multiple factors. They take damage downs, they die, they didn't have uptime since they were still uncomfortable with the mechanics while doing their rotation. Most actual wipes to mechanics happen BECAUSE people were trying to optimize dps while doing one of the mechanics that does actually lead to a wipe (most don't). But in the end, the roadblock is not the mechanics, because other people (the day 1 clearers) already figured those out. The roadblock is the enrage. And every single party is going to hit that enrage way before they actually kill the boss, because getting there is trivial, but actually making the dps check is not. When even just dying can in 99% of cases be translated into a dps loss, you know the dps really is pretty much the only thing that matters past the first hour or two of progress.