I want to play (and enjoy) machinist but I have some major concerns

[Arkenne]

Meh, DPS is to chill out :v
Wanna chill out v:? Play DPS!!

The wait time is real, but so long you play on peak times its not THAT long. This coming from a person who plays DPS the most in an Euro server while I am in NA (and yet cant wait 30 seconds). Its not that bad XP

And if you pull aggro away from the target the Tank was hitting... its 100% NOT your fault.

[Atlaworks]

Uh. I don't think he was bashing DPS, guys. Rather, he has reservations playing a DPS because he perceives other people to bash DPS that badly and doesn't want to be on the receiving end. This is not the generation of salt, but the fear of salt being dumped upon the OP.

I mean it's ultimately not nearly as bad as he thinks it is, but I can see why he'd think a lot of those things.

[Gilraen]

Only times I've seen DDs treated badly is when they behave badly/disregard mechanics. I was running through Amdapor Keep Hard my first time when, in coming to the first boss, I proceeded to kill the statues cause adds in a boss fight usually aren't good. I succeed in murdering one statue with noone telling me what for when I die to the laser attack. White Mage left me for dead the entire fight thereafter. Understandably, we wipe and I'm learned that the statues are good, laser is bad and the statues stop the laser. I haven't done any 'hardcore' content, though, so I'm not aware of how DDs are treated there.

[Lulu89]

And if you pull aggro away from the target the Tank was hitting... its 100% NOT your fault.

Not always 100% true... Aggro is a lil more easyer to take in this game then others. If it's the start of the fight then it can be one of two things DPS hit to soon or to hard (used CD) and pulled off the tank or the tank is new, under geared, for got to use SO.. And so on... So it more like 50% of the time it's the tank or the DPS.

At lower levels it's much harder to get aggro right away. Not all the time but for most it can be a lil harder. It's always a good call to give the tank a 2-3 sec start befor going to town on a boss or a big pull just to make sure the tank had aggro on everything. Now the batter you get at tanking the easyer it will come and then you as the DPS can start right away.

And let's not for get iLevel .. If you out gear the tank.. By 10-20 iLv you can't get mad at them for not holding the boss or mobs bc you hit much harder then there gear can hold with.

That's all, I'm not saying you're wrong in any way just saying you're a lil less open minded about it and for got a lot of the key points to DPS and Tank relationship ^_^/ in you're post.

[Arkenne]

50% >:Ú!!!

you're a lil less open minded about it

Okay, 50% then D:

Altho I am pretty sure Im more open minded than you might take me for... lets try to stick to encourage the OP into DPSing and out of his insecurity...

[Radacci]

unless you're like that SMN i had in pt, that spammed Miasma II (out of range of mobs) and energy drain, and Ruin...i don't think you need to worry that much.
the only reasons i could imagine for getting kicked, is if you're afk, or as bad as that SMN. Well in primal fights and such, ppl get kicked really quickly, if they try to hijack clear pts, when they obv don't have any experience.
the only issue is the cue times, really.
but yah, just play it if you think you'll like it. you won't get into much problem, unless you're really bad