I've always been good at DPS in WoW. No matter what DPS class or role I play, I seem to excel at it. I know this because in every guild or raid I've been in since early vanilla, I tend to top DPS meters, even against people in much better gear than me. But I've never really put any thought into why I do good DPS and why other people don't. Give the same character on the same computer and same setup and location to two different people, and yet one of them could do awesome DPS and the other, mediocre or less. Why?
When all other things are equal, what separates high DPS players from low?
I key-board turn on one of my DPS toons and throughout the entirety of my raiding career in Wrath, I clicked on another. And I don't just top DPS meters in my guild, but in other people's guild runs and PUG's as well. So surely they can't be reasons? Do macros matter? I tend to run with a lot of those. Does UI make a big difference? I mod the hell out of mine. Is it skill? I don't know about that since I genuinely believe it's a low-skill game and the fact is, I screw up rotations all the time.
Believe it or not, this is not a brag post but rather comes from a place of genuine concern. I don't want to go into details so suffice to say that my high DPS is starting to turn into a problem for me and I don't want it to cost me friendships I've made in the game. If I can determine what it is that I'm doing/not doing, or what is they're doing/not doing, that accounts for this difference, then I think I can fix the problem I'm having.