Am I the only one fed up with DPS obsession?

[justinjarjar]

Idk about lowest ilvl, but more of standard ilvl for clearing it (prob 200 or 210 for Alex Savage). People doing it under that ilvl ,need not only top dps from well the dps, but also need help from tanks and healers. Very few people are asking for drg level dps beyond maybe monk (who is so close that many times monks do out dps drgs). The big thing is within the role how much dps can you push while still doing your intended job. I am not sure PLDs are completely not being taken (a few are even in the first few runs) just many groups are finding that drk/war pushes more dam than the other two combos of tanks. Healing on the other hand is seeing next to no ASTs (the card buff/AST dps is just not as good dps as the other two healers who also have stronger healing) on clear parties and the SCH/WHM rule supreme. This all comes from clear groups thou so you are looking at ilvl 185-190 right now when the majority of people will complete or try savage at ilvl 200 where the moderate to slight dps difference matters less. PF is where you see more of the problem most statics that are more on the casual side (not clear groups) are less likely to make someone play a different job unless it is holding them back (or they believe it is) from clearing. Any content but savage should not even look at the dps difference, since all jobs are more than capable of clear RAV. EX or expert roulette. However good balance should be made with the highest skill level taken into account which is the current clear groups, if a job is under performing, and yes that includes healer/tank dps (they design with no healer dps, but in no way are against healer dps), then it should be adjusted so.

With this knowledge people do have some real and valid concern, however nothing is impossible and if you want to push a class to it's limits people/the community should not be against you trying. Most players suck, lets face it I myself am not top dps in the world by a long shot and most of the rest of us are not either (we would be putting in the time of clear groups if we where), but that does not mean you cannot not be damn good at the class you like. I mentioned that while on dummy technically drg is out dpsing monk, but even in clear groups monk players have shown that they can out dps great drg players.