Am I the only one fed up with DPS obsession?

[Reynhart]

Because DPS Obsession brings up DPS checks which = difficulty until you get the gear to meet it or up your game in general. Removal of DPS check makes content easier sooo the topic shifts? Natural progression.

Actually, no, it's not that simple.

Recently, I've helped some people in my FC on their first T13 try. They had pretty much no idea about what to expect but we were all lvl60.
We were...destroyed ! Each phase was really short thanks to the massive increase in our DPS, but without any knowledge, Mega Flare and Divebombs just ripped us a new one.
And that's just after breezing through T10 with the same lack of knowledge, because it's only a "DPS check".

If Alex savage is as focused on DPS check than people says it is, I'm sure far more people will have cleared it by the end of 3.x than people cleared Coil at the end of 2.x.

It's the same with our poor Ifrit EX. Why was it the "highest" one ? Because it has more HP and deal more damage...which is irrelevant when everybody has new gear. Titan EX...nope, still a pain for lots of people. If you can't dodge Landslide, nobody cares how many HP you have or how much DPS you can do