"closing the DPS gap"

[Hamada]

I'm a returning player so I am not up to date with the min/max "meta" of the game now. Before I left the game 1-2 years ago food and potions were relatively important factor in min/maxing. Food/potions often require a lot of grinding (usually the hardcore players with a lot of time obtain) which is something that results in dps gap between average and top players. Maybe this is something that is still is a big factor and needs to be looked into if the desire is to decrease the dps gap?

People are not talking about consumables with this issue. It is strictly knowing rotations. i/e 4000-6900 dps aoe vs 1200, same gear on aoe as brd.

[Khalithar]

It may close the gap a little if it makes the gameplay mistakes less punishing (looking at you blm) and raise the bottom level higher. But the players that want to push themselves to the limit will always do better than the ones that aren't as good.