Quote Originally Posted by Paidhi View Post
Again, don't play with them if you don't want to feel obligated to compensate. Are they forcing you to play with them?. Are they forcing you to play worse than you like? Get into a hardcore FC and raid there if that's the only thing that makes you happy. It is really that simple. Understand that for many players what matters is a)to play decently well and b)have fun while doing it. Nothing else. They don't need a meter telling them they have to improve a particular rotation, or choose another job to get 300 an extra dps. And they are not telling you to "relax", so don't tell them to "improve".
This is quite the Strawman you're building. If you think people care about a meager 300 DPS, you clearly don't understand the issue. Playing decently is a Samurai pulling roughly 14,000 rDPS in full i470. Maybe a little less. No one will bat an eye seeing those numbers. If said Samurai can't even break 10,000. They're essentially doing tank damage, which isn't "playing decently" it's downright garbage. They are actively hindering the group as a whole because if everyone shared their mentality, you wouldn't be able to clear.

What makes me "happy" is clearing content efficiently. I couldn't care less if you're super optimized but if you're doing half the damage you should be, you have no business being in Savage. Fortunately, I don't have to play with these people as my magic abacus lets me decide if I should eject them from it or leave myself. What does suck is there are several people who want to improve yet have no idea how because the game offers no information. I've even meant players who were stunned their damage was so low. And quite thankful when I linked them guides.

Angus summarized it pretty well. If all the players who "played decently" kept to their own circles, you'd never clear anything.