DPS is too slow guys! (OMG!!!)

[Spiritreaver1217]

...Thing is usually DPS just get blamed for everything, really. Starts to get boring after a while.

This. The tank and healer can be super bad and the DPS are the ones who are kicked.

In WoD on first boss and its just a death-fest all around. Tanks are fighting for MT and the eye is spinning like a top. People avoiding the mega-ray-laser-of-death are dying to the floor mechanic or Doom. Not good times.

But i have spent way too much time in that hole and have literally run it mostly asleep many times. So i am up the whole time reapplying my dots and then pretty much raising ppl as soon as the action was was off of cd, was on SMN.

We somehow clear when enough ppl were up and managed a respectable come-back. Tank and a healer in my party let their linkshell conversation carry into party chat and they decide that since i didn't die, i wasn't pulling my weight and should be kicked. And you know what? Even though i raised many of that party, some multiple times, the motion passed and i was kicked.

Never mind the tank and his pissing match with the other tanks, or the healer who literally laid there on the floor a good 5 min or so after i had put raise on him the third time; let's put the near failure of the whole raid-not just our party-on the guy who had the temerity to pay attention to mechanics, do their job, and not die.

So yeah, i totally agree with you two.

[LTEvil]

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Yeah! What he said.

[Whiteroom]

The point is that, outside of progression raiding, DPS CAN be lazy and still pass DPS checks. If a healer isn't doing their job people die. This is obvious. A healer must heal (though they can be lazy and not DPS) or people will notice. If a Tank isn't doing their job monsters run all over the place. This is obvious. A tank must hold aggro (though, again, can be lazy and not stance dance/maximize DPS) or people will know.

this is why a in game parser would be nice, even if it was just one like the one DCUO has, that shows total damage output. yeah it would be abused, but everything is, and right now, not having one is being abused in a way that many groups are forced to break up, and people don't even know how good they really are, just how good their gear is.

[LTEvil]

Oh nice. Thanks for labeling every single DPS lazy then, with that definition(not much progression left in this game. Very clever there Lina.) Being considerate is a lost art in today worlds so I guess you never stopped to consider that maybe there's players out there that work hard as DPS regardless of the "mode" they are playing in.

So we're gonna start this Tank/healer vs DPS, bullshit now?

Well in General from my experience most dps are lazy. Especially in this game since meters are so taboo. It's not personal. I play all roles. But I run into far more bad dps than tanks healers because tanks and healers being bad are noticeable more. Sorry if I wasn't clear.