Quote Originally Posted by Dervy View Post
  • The Jobs with the least responsibilities are DPS jobs (Excluding Bard)
  • Lazier players pick DPS jobs because they're Easy
  • No one wants to be a Jesus/Jesusette and keep his/her party alive, too much responsibility
  • Thus, there's a larger influx of players who are newer, casual, inexperienced, lazy, "play for fun" who are DPS than other Jobs. As a result, this brings down the overall quality of the DPS Jobs.
Just wanted to single this bit out because it's kinda funny... My fiance (we've been duo'ing MMOs together for years) decided to take a switch coming to FFXIV and play a DPS because, generally, they are the easier of the classes and have less responsibility. But very quickly playing this game found that a lot of an encounter's success rests on the DPS not sucking.

So I think for this game, the idea that DPS is the lazy, easy option isn't accurate.

Back to the topic at hand and to parrot the others here; just pay attention. That's the biggest thing. I know it's real easy to tunnel vision and just focus on damaging (I fall into that when DPSing now and then too) but this is a game where situational awareness is extremely important for everyone.