Quote Originally Posted by AngaratoSvartberg View Post
if you wanna be mediocre that's fine but that doesnt mean we have too.
I could kiss you for this comment, but you're on an different data center :P

SteakDriven's post highlights my point to JamsC. He is a tank main coming in to a melee DPS role forum and telling us that our role is a problem because he finds it difficult to multitask mechanics. It "ruins [his] rhythm,". Us being able to handle it is "[our] own fault. So we're the problem for actually being able to play more competently than he can, the implication being that our fun should be neutered to bring things down to his lower skill level.

This is not something any of the melee DPS mains are saying. It's all coming from passive players on the outside, historically coming from WHM and SCH players, but always from lower-APM job mains who think taking a step to the left, doing a few moves, then taking a step to the right and doing a few moves, is somehow too much for their comfort.

Entitlement is when you act as though you are deserving of special treatment or privileges, i.e. coming into someone else's house and demanding they do things your way. This is why the Healer Strike was entitled; it pushed blame on the devs for the design philosophy they adopted with the healers, but neglected the part where it was at the healers' request (even if not everyone shared those opinions). Melee DPS mains by and large did NOT ask for this, and are wholly opposed to it, but we do hold one another accountable, as I have already done by addressing the remarks of Mr. Happy calling for more downtime in Viper's rotation which is incredibly stupid and no one here in this thread seems to support that sentiment (if anything, it's the opposite). I have also addressed the damage Happy and Drak have caused to MNK. I'm not pretending there aren't problem people within DPS circles, but we at least acknowledge and deal with our own, instead of shirking accountability and blaming external sources. Players are the ones who asked for Cleric Stance to be removed, not the devs.