Quote Originally Posted by Shirobi View Post
Actually, its been my experience that DPS are often held to much higher standards than healers or tanks and are expected to carry the fight and get kicked at the drop of a hat over the smallest mistake. Meantime, the healers and tanks seem to get infinite "Ooops my bads."s or "Sorry, cat was on fire gotta go AFK midboss fight"s.
I don't think that has much to do with the Dps being held to a higher standard so much as it is a fact that if you have a crappy Dps you can swap them out in under a minute; whereas, if you have a crappy tank or healer you risk being without one for an hour if you vote/kick them.

It's for this reason that it is all the more important for Dps to at least be performing to the average level. I've never kicked a Dps for "small mistakes;" however, if you're looking for a carry, or you've repeatedly wiped the group, or you're not listening to the chat when the entire group tells you you've done something wrong, or you're just being a general A**hat in the chat box, you're done. Why should anyone put up with that when Dps are, quiet literally, a dime a dozen?

So the raid/dungeon is taking a little longer than normal because of slow/under-performing Dps? No big deal. It sucks, but that's nothing to kick someone over. One of your Dps is being a troll to the group... different story. There's plenty of other Dps who were waiting for that que timer to go off. Might as well give them a shot rather than stick with the bad apple.