/Accuse @ the devs: have you set us up to fail...?

[RichardButte]

I really wonder about players who make statements like this. Toxic is the last thing I'd use to describe my experience in DF, and I have been playing for over two years. Most of the time things go smoothly and it's very uneventful. A lot of this post reeks of gross exaggeration.

I really wonder about players who assume that their experiences mirror that of everyone else in the game. You know, the old chestnut about "I just ate, so I guess world hunger is a lie."

The issue I see in this entire thought is, if the game sets everyone up to fail, how do some succeed?

Usually by seeking help outside the game, which shouldn't be the best option for determining how to play your class properly.

It's generally rare to run into a tank or healer that doesn't know how to properly play their class while it's entirely commonplace to run into DPS that are next to clueless.

It's not hard to see which of the roles the game is doing a poor job of educating, and you can say "Well, some DPS do learn!" but that doesn't help the fact that DPS that DON'T learn are still going to plague most DFs you queue into.

The old adage about leading a horse to water comes to mind concerning what the OP stated. All the guidance and hand holding in the world won’t fix laziness, which is what I find to be the most common reason for bad dps numbers.

That doesn't justify putting a blindfold on the horse so it can't even tell if it's found water in the first place, though.