How much DPS should I be doing?

[SaitoHikari]

I parse all the time in low level dungeons. But anyone that actually takes it seriously enough to bring it up with everyone else there is an idiot that's only wasting everyone's time.

It's hilarious that the one bringing this up is a RDM too. NOBODY can compete with a good RDM pre-50, because no job has an answer to Verthunder/Veraero consistently crapping out 300 potency damage every 5 seconds, while every other job takes much longer to do similar damage at those levels.

[Lastelli]

I do not run ACT since I heard you could get banned for it

That's not true. You can get banned if you use act to harrass other players. Unfortunately, using a parser is the best way to become a better player since you can actually have a numerical feedback immediately whenever you change something in your rotaiton to see if it works or not.

Anyway, DRG low level aoe dps is pretty bad. It's totally normal, so don't worry too much about it.

[MauvaisOeil]

I'm never bothering anyone in lecelling that does at least 50% of what i expect. Under this it's usually afk autoshoot.

In 50+ content I tend to be more and more expecting, and the 50% grows to 80%.

[Frizze]

+1 to the above. Sounds like you were fine. You went to AoE when it was suggested, thats almost all you can do at that level. If youre mathematically inclined, you could take a couple mins and break down how much potency you get spamming doom spike(while making sure to keep heavy thrust on) on groups of say 2-6 enemies versus how much potency your combo attacks would do to a single target. That would arm you with the exact knowledge of when its better to whip out the spike versus running through all your skills. But yeah, just the fact that you cared/were curious enough to come ask tells me in the long run you should be fine.

[Fluffernuff]

I parse all the time in low level dungeons. But anyone that actually takes it seriously enough to bring it up with everyone else there is an idiot that's only wasting everyone's time.

It's hilarious that the one bringing this up is a RDM too. NOBODY can compete with a good RDM pre-50, because no job has an answer to Verthunder/Veraero consistently crapping out 300 potency damage every 5 seconds, while every other job takes much longer to do similar damage at those levels.

The sad thing is, this RDM in particular wasn't exactly an example of this. I wasn't/am not going to post numbers, but this thread had me a bit annoyed/curious. I ran cutter's cry a coupla times and let's just say the numbers made me feel alot worse.

The fact is, even if 80something DPS is "abyssmal" the dude was only ahead by 20. 20 isnt alot. not even at that level.

[ExiaQuanta]

The the thing about ilvl sync is it doesn't sync gear to well....the ilvl of that dungeon ahah. Sure it syncs but to a point where its higher than usual. Hence why most new tanks (even when doing everything right) have aggro issue with lvl synced dps. Imo you could say you`re doing the "intended dps", while the RDM is doing "synced dps" lol.

[Fluffernuff]

The the thing about ilvl sync is it doesn't sync gear to well....the ilvl of that dungeon ahah. Sure it syncs but to a point where its higher than usual. Hence why most new tanks (even when doing everything right) have aggro issue with lvl synced dps. Imo you could say you`re doing the "intended dps", while the RDM is doing "synced dps" lol.

Just to use this as another point and explain a little more on this specific point. I'm not a good teacher, but yknow. just an explaination for our new lancer friend here.

Theres level sync, ilvl sync, and a "true ilvl" sync. I dont know the formula or anything, but when gear is synced down in a dungeon, it's not actually strictly that level. An example is level 60 PvP, gear is synced down it 150, but thats stats on that gear are equivalent to 190. there's a cap, but the margin is there and noticeable. For a dungeon with a lvl sync of 40, i cant imagine gear being much more powerful than ilvl 90 or something.

In any case, when you outlevel and outgear a dungeon, you are still noticeably more powerful than a person at the same level range and gear as that dungeon. Great gear is important, you see!

[Drede]

And on the subject of gear, I can't help but point out that the level 45 job quests give really good gear for that level so don't forget to do that.