People were asking about maximum DPS, warping the meaning so they play 'how they should' is just redefining a terminology. You should have corrected them and told them they should be asking about "effective DPS" and not "maximum DPS".
True. I guess I was just trying to let people know that going for all out maximum dps for a lot of the professions and specs is a very bad idea and one that will put them on the shit list with other players in a hurry. I probably should have said something more along those lines. I just don't want to see a bunch of people gearing, speccing, and playing like GW2 is WoW or anything other MMO before it. Survivability is definitely a good thing for most professions in GW2 regardless of what you're doing, whereas in other MMOs it's not necessary for a lot of things.
I like this kind of question, but since we dont have a parser dps, I will say it's hard to answer.