What is the point of "no mods" if it is not enforced?

[Urthdigger]

@ lulu89. Yeah I understand that as a group each individual has a job and responsible to help the group beat whatever is in front of them. So with that in mind I was in a six player dungeon and another player started complaining I was only doing 3 attack moves. These attacks stacked so I do one, then the second which does more damage than if I'd just done it on its own before the first, and then the last attack does massive damage. In between I will do aoe attacks as well, but to get the best dps means repeating these 3 attacks. Am I incorrect, should I just do random attacks that don't stack?

No, you don't use "random attacks". You use them in a way that makes sense. First off, you'll want to do Heavy Thrust from the side to get a 15% buff to your damage. Do that again every time it wears off.

Next, you ask if you're facing more than 2 monsters or not. If you are, spam your AoE moves (Dragonfire Dive when it's up, then Doom Spike if they're positioned in a nice way for it, or Ring of Thorns if they're not (or you got the combo from Heavy Thrust for it).

If you're NOT facing more than 2 monsters, then pick a monster and start your single target rotation. Impulse drive into disembowel into chaos thrust for starters so the monster takes 10% more damage and has a nasty damage over time. Then Phlebotomize for even more damage over time. THEN you do your full thrust combo (and don't use global cooldown attacks in-between parts of the combo, that interrupts it and you WON'T get the effect), until it's time to re-apply Heavy Thrust, Disembowel, Chaos Thrust, or Phlebotomize.

Regardless of doing AoE or singles, use your buffs and off-GCD attacks when you can. Use Blood for Blood and Battle Litany whenever possible, use Life Surge before a large attack (like Full Thrust), use Leg Sweep and your jumps (and use Power Surge before Jump when it's up) whenever they're up, and use Invigorate when you're low on TP.

This isn't even getting into cross-class abilities, or the abilities you'll learn later on. This is also all super basic stuff I was able to gather just from looking at the ability descriptions, and doesn't even get into advanced stuff like timing your buffs to get the most bang for your buck.

There is a WORLD of difference between playing like that, and just spamming your full thrust combo. You have other abilities, learn how to use them.

[Taika]

So with that in mind I was in a six player dungeon and another player started complaining I was only doing 3 attack moves. These attacks stacked so I do one, then the second which does more damage than if I'd just done it on its own before the first, and then the last attack does massive damage.

There is a WORLD of difference between playing like that, and just spamming your full thrust combo. You have other abilities, learn how to use them.

Urthdigger explained the basics. This thread still has the full level 50 rotation you should use as a base for leveling from 50 to 60: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...otation-Reborn

When you get to level 60, it's time to learn the current full rotation, which you can find from this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...A-DPS-Paradigm

As a DD, there is never a situation in which you only spam 1 2 3.