DPS obsession in farm groups

[Ghishlain]

Sarcastic response noted. Moar DPS and Playing Better are not synonymous. The PLD that insists on MT-ing everything in sword oath to push out "moar dps" comes to mind. I've seen this so many times. Healers dps less to heal the PLD more, BRD or BLM take aggro and boss gets spun around and melee lose positionals. PLD insists his/her way is better because of his/her dps increase.

It's sad that there are so many sheep that see pros do certain things and go "I MUST REPLICATE" without understanding WHY certain things are done in certain ways.


Full time Sword Oath MTing PLD is completely possible and the PLD I have in my static for Alex does it for 3/4 of the raid tier (goes DRK for A12s).

I think I'll interject my own comment here regarding "Play Better" meta. The "Play Better" meta normally nets a gain in party DPS, but not necessarily individual DPS. DPS is both a solo statistic and a party-wide statistics and doing certain things in certain ways will net a higher gain in party DPS at a small potential cost of personal DPS.

Also, "Playing Better" will vary from group to group and change dramatically with PuGs too. IE I was running EXDR in 3.4 as MCH and got into Gubal HM. I had a WAR who literally pulled in Deliverance without a NIN and after my Wildfire went off I pulled hate. I guess he was just used to really poor DPS in most EX runs, lol. However, without speaking a word to each other he then changed his opener on the next two bosses so he was in Defiance for initial hate and I adjusted where I put my Quelling Strikes so I wouldn't risk pulling hate and no issues were had even after he made the swap back to Deliverance.

@OP Topic

Everyone is entitled to do what they want. If someone feels a group isn't performing to their expectations, they're allowed to leave, it's not like they're breaking any agreement with you unless you somehow stated "stay for three clears to get a feel" or something to that effect. It's a nuisance that's exacerbated into aggravation if they leave with a toxic comment but your opening post certainly doesn't convey any empathy or understanding on your part either.