Why are low standards for dps acceptable?

[Livaille]

Edit: 800 dps is only being carried if everyone else is doing significantly more then you. If everyone else is doing less then you are in fact carrying them with 800 dps.

No, that would mean that everyone is doing a bad job at dpsing.

Different people playing different classes, some with higher ilevels then others, all contributing. Just because someone is doing 100 less dps then everyone else doesn't mean they are getting carried.

Indeed, that depends of people's gear and job. You will obviously do a lot less dps as a 190 bard than the 210 Dragoon that's in your group.

Truly being carried is laying dead on the floor contributing nothing while everyone else clears the content.

I disagree. Doing 800 dps (as a melee dps for example) when everyone else is over 1100 is a carry in my book. Not as bad as laying dead on the ground of course, but still a carry.

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So are you trolling this thread?