Quote Originally Posted by Reiryuu View Post
But in each of those situations I'm actually getting paid to put up with said evaluations. I am paying to play a video game here.
The hockey one, you are not getting paid - unless you are a professional hockey player. However, in plenty of leagues, you pay for entry.

The important note is not who is paying what, it is if and how your actions affect your teammates.

When I am teamed up with a player who is pressing 1 over and over again, or setting someone on auto-follow and afking, or whatever. I don't care that I am paying x dollars per month, or that they are paying x dollars per month. I care that they are in a team environment and not playing as a team.

While I do the best I can, I'm certainly not going to cry if Tommy the Tank can't get out of his dungeon 3 seconds faster because I am not pissing through my mp by spamming holy with Presence of Mind up. Can Tommy the tank tell I'm not doing that without a parser? Sure. Will Tommy the Tank be able to wave numbers in my face of all his buddy whms that do 100dps more than me to finish the dungeon 3 seconds faster? Nope.
This seems needlessly antagonistic. I also feel you have a very poor understanding of how changes in DPS affect the speed of a run. For example, a run will be ~20 minutes. DPS for the team will be ~3200. If you increase that by 100 DPS, then you are now moving 3% faster. At 20 minutes, that works out to 36 seconds faster. That said, a 100 increase in DPS is fairly minimal, and generally not the kind of thing we are talking about in this thread.

Further, having higher DPS can often help push phases which may slow you down even more (i.e. skipping the 2nd frog phase on the first boss in Anti-Tower, or the 2nd dollhouse, etc.)

(as a side note, a healer can easily exceed 1.2k DPS on AoE with Holy or dots/bane or gravity)

I am sorry to say this, but it is people like you who make me avoid raiding. I don't like being a burden and I am extremely self conscious of what I do. As I said, I play the game for entertainment and enjoyment. If I want stress and scrutiny over my every move I'll go to work where I get paid for that.
I have zero idea why you would avoid raiding because of people like me. Do you care to elaborate?

In terms of raiding, I would say that you will want to take your performance seriously. That said, try to find a team with like-minded individuals. It sounds like you'd want a casual team, one that can laugh it off when you wipe etc. Regardless, you do have 7 other people who are depending on you, and that should be motivation enough to bring your A game. For me, at least, I hate the idea of screwing up in raid.