DPS Misconceptions

[givemeraptors]

Also I beg to disagree that DPS know mechanics better. It is a player trait if someone can pick up on mechanics easily or not, not a role trait.

This is what I mean though. Oftentimes these misconceptions are stated as a inherent part of the DPS role, instead of player ability. I should have made that clearer. I don't mean to say that DPS will ALWAYS know it better, just combating the idea that tanks and healers will always know it better specifically because they are tanks and healers and not simply because they are being played by good players. I've seen DPS lead (not physically of course) parties where the tank is new and it works just as well as when a tank knows, and I understand why it's the default that people defer to the tank for leadership but it's created this idea that the DPS just run around and pew pew without a whiff of awareness.

oh, and the only reason some of those mechanics get delegated to DPS is because healers are busy, you know, healing.

See above for a response to the majority of your post but I just wanted to highlight this separately because I don't understand what point you're trying to make with this statement. I'm not saying DPS get those mechanics delegated to them because they know the fight better, I'm saying they know the fight better because they get those duties handed to them. For instance, if you play as a DPS/tank, then healer I think it's surprising to see how much stuff you were concerned with as either of those classes that simply don't concern you as a healer and for which you need to have exactly zero knowledge of to do a good job. There's no reason a healer knows the fight better because they're a healer. In some cases a healer is the person who can know the least amount and get away with it. Same with a tank.