Quote Originally Posted by Jim_Berry View Post
Parsers is also why we get healers and tanks who can't do well. That DPS player wanted to play a different role now. A win's a win. If it's a farm, then it should continue as it was going. When you force your DPS to push phases (even though following normal mechanics saw high success rates), you tend to burn out the player quickly.

Not only that, but then your definition of "farm" is "speed", so mechanics get ignored and people try to squeeze that last bit of damage before they move out of aoe.
I would suggest that good players tend to prioritize mechanics as necessary since no one puts out good numbers lying dead on the floor (squeezing out that last bit of damage before moving out of an AoE is how it should be done, assuming that the player actually times it properly or just doesn't bother moving because their defensive cooldowns allow them to eat the AoE with little or no consequence).

When I see failure in casual content, it's usually a mechanics failure but is often exacerbated by DPS being unusually slow, thus allowing for more time for things to go wrong.

For end-game content, DPS checks often are key mechanics for certain phases, and always to some degree in the overall fight. T10 is a good example since it's the entry point for FCOB: players sometimes take so long to kill Imdugud that someone eventually spaces out and screws up on mechanics while the floor is in full enrage mode due to the aforementioned extreme lack of DPS. DPS classes pulling 300ish on T10 with 10% Echo really isn't okay unless they are in full learning mode and have no idea what is going on yet. If I were otherwise performing mechanics but continuing to put out very poor DPS, I'd want to know that I could do better and how to start improving.

And yes, it can be difficult to tell who's doing a good job without metrics to refer to. Not only do subpar DPS often fly under the radar (including their own radar), sometimes exceptional DPS is under-appreciated. The enmity list isn't a great indicator since DPSing under Quelling Strikes or having a DRG pop Elusive Jump influences the rankings.