Am I the only one fed up with DPS obsession?

[Yhximott]

I feel like SE's idea for PLD's new abilities was to make them a supplemental healer in the OT position, counterpart to WAR's OT position of supplementary DPS, but nobody seems to give a crap about unique play stile. All anyone ever talks about is DPS. "How can we push more DPS out of the tanks? How can we push more DPS out of the healers? We need to change everything so that DPS is better." Seems like a bunch of corporate fat-cats screeching about the bottom line, and the $$$ of FFXIV is DPS. The squeaky wheel spoke, the Dev's answered, and now we're painted into a corner where only DPS is "viable." i.e. "If you make PLD a healer, you should be able to replace a healer with a DPS. If it can't DPS, nobody will play it."

You should play it because it's fun because this is a GAME.

[Whiston]

Am I the only one fed up with DPS obsession?

Yes.

But to expand on the reasoning why it's important is because the game is designed with certain DPS checks at a certain level of gear.
Your options early in a release are to do an extended amount of DPS from any source possible, or wait without clearing until you get more gear or find players who have that level of skill.

In the current end-game, DPS is currently king because enrage timers exist in all facets of the game.
Skilled players are accomplishing this and other skilled players get upset that everyone isn't as skilled as them, or unskilled players find an outlet to rationalize their low dps (ex: PLD dps sucks, please buff, etc)

[Picori]

I'm with you on stop this dps obsession.
Are static has a Pld, and drk and we beat everything in game besides savage. We cleared Faust dps check as well.
Static is Pld, drk, SMN, blm, mech, monk, whm, Astro.
We now are getting the 200 weapons this week so it's even going to help even more.

[FoxyAreku]

The game is about killing bosses. You're not gonna heal things to death, so doing damage is the only way and this will never change.

If you don't want to do damage you probably should play a different genre.

[Eye_Gore]

If you don't want to do damage you probably should play a different genre.

So in reality the tanks/healers actually have 2 jobs to do and the DPS classes only one job to do? No wonder there are more DPS class players, taking the easy way out.

You're not gonna heal things to death

Actually that is what kind of happens, healers keep the tank alive, tanks keep the DPS and everyone else from taking damage, and then in turn can kill the boss. I think a lot of people forgot how the party system works

[Bovinity]

The game is about killing bosses. You're not gonna heal things to death, so doing damage is the only way and this will never change.

If you don't want to do damage you probably should play a different genre.

Indeed, you're there to kill bosses, and you do that by getting them to 0hp in most cases. You do that by dealing damage.

That's not to say that other actions aren't important, but the ultimate goal is the boss dying, and everyone can do some amount of damage, so yes...damage will be a very common aspect of the raiding process.

[Alistaire]

You should play it because it's fun because this is a GAME.

I'm just gonna leave this here...

[Kabooa]

You don't have to be like the #1 guild to clear content.

You don't have to be like the #1 guild to clear content.

(Repeat this mantra)

You don't have to be like the #1 guild to clear content.

[Zalland]

I agree that there is dps obsession with some people in this game, all you have to do is look at other threads and u will see too many people wanting a dps buff to their favorite jobs just cuz another job does more dps than them, and that's not a good enough reason to get a dps buff. But what really concerns me imo is the mind-set of some people that if you don't do dragoon lvl dps your job needs a dps buff and is not viable for end game content. That concerns me cuz people keep complaining about dps on their jobs needs a buff.Not cuz u cant complete content, not cuz your skills are weak or broken, but some people just complain and whine about dps cuz their job isn't number one on the dps board. My advise would be to get over it cuz as long as you complete the run does it really matter who has the highest dps on end game or any content? As long as the run gets completed who really cares about dps?

[WingsOfAzrael]

dps checks are there for a reason, if you can't pass the dps check then you can't do the real content of the dungeon or atleast finish it, so yes you're the only one fed up with dps obsession considering its necessary when its not possible to overgear atm for things like alexander or alexander savage