Originally Posted by
Yuefairchild
Wow, you couldn't be more off. xD Let me try to fix that for you. It'll be hard to salvage this much failure, but I think I can. This is a mni-guide for how DPS needs to handle Cata raiding, and raiding in general. I'm not going to discuss tanking or healing, since it's so simple. If you don't already know how to handle heroic LK 25 in T9 gear, you just fail. Stop trying and quit WoW, gtfo my internet. X3 Moving on now to the most complex part of the game, DPS!
1) Positioning Is Someone Else's Job: Knockbacks? Cleaves? This is meaningless busy work for players that could be doing more DPS. Stand wherever you're in rage and go JOHN FUCKING MADDEN. if you get knocked back, it's the tank's problem. If you get hit in an AOE or a cone, let the healer deal with it. A good raider doesn't need to worry about these things because their DPS is maximized. Which brings me to the next thing to remember.
2) Communication is for RPers: You know best. Never let yourself forget that, or the entire game population will walk all over you. If someone doesn't know a fight, you need to jump on them immediately with a barrage of "gj moron" and "fail, noob". Fail players need to learn this isn't tolerated in endgame, and the best way to weed out scrubs is to be brutal. The slightest failure needs to be dragged into the open and blame assigned ASAP. Don't know who to blame? Just pick a name. Everyone else fails anyway.
3) This Is Your Game, Not Theirs: You're the boss. You bought the game and pay a subscription fee with your mom's hard-earned money, so why should you need to suffer fools? If you don't know something, wing it. Don't bring it up, or fail drama queens will eat you alive. Anyone that gets upset at all is insulting you. Take things personally and be aggressive towards other players, but never let yourself forget that you are right. If you really can't find any explanation besides a mistake (which you never make), it's clearly because the game is unbalanced against your class. Blame Ghostcrawler.
4) Don't Wait: Groups fall apart at the drop of the hat, you can't afford to let it happen by trying people's patience! Keep your raid going at a high pace. Don't stop to explain fights or strategize on trash when more time could be spent DPSing. The ideal raid is a constant chain-pull from beginning to end, and if you can't manage that, you fail.