A question for DPS mains and what not

[Silverquick]

Its never really bothered me,

I've generally been at 12-14 minute queue times... sometimes only 5 minutes at high levels expert and 60th level dungeons. I never get complaints on my DPS as a SMN, and I tend to get a lot of Coms. Whenever I play either BLM or SMN I get a lot of them.

I have come to learn a lot of it from SMN is because the AoEs in this game are much like Crowd Control in other games. And a little DPS CC like that seriously speeds up the run, if you're really good at it, people notice. There's a lot of really good Single Target Damage DPS classes... but not as many that can AoE DPS which equates to crowd control in this game. Hence that small portion fills neatly in a gap and creates the need. (Much like the Control Mage of Dungeons and Dragons, where crowd control is defined as a Fireball or just outright destroying weaker mobs leaving only the strong standing)

People appreciate a good AoE damager and its readily apparent when you have a good one. Crowd Control, is really about controlling the battlefield, whether thats an AoE sleep... or just an AoE Magic blast wiping out the weaker ones...