So this game has dps checks but we can't talk about our dps in game?

[Atelier-Bagur]

Mate, you sound like you've never raided in this game. You also keep ignoring people telling you how it really is.

This game's raiding is an almost exclusive dps check. After the first 2 days, the puzzles have been solved, and the boss mechanics are never actually very challenging after people figured out the strategy and then everyone and their mother copies those optimized strategies and suddenly the only thing that still really goes wrong is people doing too low dps.

Now, how they do too low dps is often multiple factors. They take damage downs, they die, they didn't have uptime since they were still uncomfortable with the mechanics while doing their rotation. Most actual wipes to mechanics happen BECAUSE people were trying to optimize dps while doing one of the mechanics that does actually lead to a wipe (most don't). But in the end, the roadblock is not the mechanics, because other people (the day 1 clearers) already figured those out. The roadblock is the enrage. And every single party is going to hit that enrage way before they actually kill the boss, because getting there is trivial, but actually making the dps check is not. When even just dying can in 99% of cases be translated into a dps loss, you know the dps really is pretty much the only thing that matters past the first hour or two of progress.

But thats the point. You have multiple factors for a raid wipe; again too many dead people during phase, people arent properly geared to perform well. Having meters that tell you your dps output isnt the absolute information that determines you didnt clear the enrage, nor is it something that should be pushed on as an be all end all requirement for everyone to raid properly. Dont you dare tell me that I never raided, because I have done enough and managed to clear enrage phases knowing that we did so because we all dealt enough damage to clear it, not because everybody had to chug strength potions into their rotations to pass through dps checks. Unless a good portion of the raid group is absolutely mindless, brainless, completely numb not doing their basic job rotations and not pressing enough of their damage buttons, then yeah you'll get a wipe.