Getting abuse for DPS as a fairly new player - normal?

[Nixxe]

Please realise though that level 70 with several months of playing means you're not new anymore

This is a pretty shallow way of thinking about it that neither accounts for the actual time /played nor what experience the person in question may or may not have and doesn't seem terribly useful. Skilled players are forged in the fires of serious endgame, where there is both performance feedback and incentive to improve. Everything up to that point, while not entirely irrelevant, counts for very little.