Quote Originally Posted by LilimoLimomo View Post
In theory you certainly could criticize the exact cadence of a person's timing. But I'm not concerned about that for a few reasons:
In all the casual content I've done with less-skilled players, I've never seen anyone make that kind of criticism. I've seen lots of criticism about not casting specific spells, though.

And that's probably because "You aren't pressing your buttons at optimal times" and "You never cast Glarega" are two very different kinds of criticism. One is talking about never using a valuable part of a player's kit, while one is much more down the nitpick road. Given that difference, I don't think there's a reason to presume that in the absence of Glarega, good faith criticism about never casting Glarega would simply be replaced by good faith criticism about button timing optimization. Again, I've never seen such a criticism.
Have you ever seen criticism like that while running a dungeon? And if so, how frequently?
I wasn't talking about optimal timings. I was talking about not casting specific spells, which is exactly what you say you've seen criticized. It's easy to point out that someone isn't casting a specific spell if they have a grand total of one option to choose from. It's harder to do that when they have an interesting menu to choose from.

But really, as far as I'm concerned, this is making a mountain out of a molehill. In 27+ months, I've never seen any individual criticized, nicely or rudely, in-game about their DPS, including my own. Heck, no one commented in-game on the absolutely atrocious DPS that led to the 14+ minute, wipe-free run of P7N that I got to experience.

(I mean, yes, I don't doubt that rude individuals exist out there, but are they really so prevalent as to necessitate gimping healers because some poor person might discover that, yes, there are rude individuals on the Internet if you spend enough time there?)