The obsession with "efficiency"

[Amiaze]

I think there's a fine line between efficiency and obsession, as Hayward said. I see nothing wrong with wanting to maximize your DPS or your role as a healer or tank. But, at the same time, I've been in parties where people would call out the DPS of a tank while we were still having aggro problems.

I think we should first worry about people functioning in their respective roles before we worry about maximizing the potential of every class/job. I know this game has some very steep DPS-checks, but I'm seeing quite a lot of tanks and healers letting other parties members die because they're too busy trying to maximize DPS instead of tanking or healing.

Well, there's nit picking at efficiency, and there's getting upset at people who are adding 10-20 extra minutes to your dungeon runs because they can't even perform their pre-50 rotations properly and do less damage than your healer and tank.

Exactly. I'm a MCH, but I was previously maining WHM. I don't have Blood for Blood. I'm working on it now so that I can maximize my DPS, but I'm not going to pull my hair out over it. For me, personally, I just won't raid Alexander Savage or anything with very steep DPS checks when I know I might not be able to make it. Everything else is fair game, in my opinion.