Originally Posted by
Shelly
Here's the thing.
I'm not in competition with you. The only person I care about doing better than is me. I like to do the best I can in a way that has fun. I DO take pride in my game and it's rather offensive that you'd say I wouldn't. It's just MY game is NOT your game.
I don't need to be respected for 100% efficiency, what I am respected for is for being a good raider within my own LIMITED SCOPE. And I hope that you are as well, within YOUR scope. When doing LFR I'm friendly, explain the fights if I need to and offer advice when asked and enjoy myself.
When I'm doing normal raiding I'm respected for keeping my DPS well within the pack and often towards the top of it (good lord it's been hard to find competent raiders since BC!) I'm also respected for knowing the fights, completing my role and staying out of the fire. My lack of achievement of the highest theoretical DPS has NOTHING to do with how well I raid.
I'm going to assume you forgot a "not" in there and your straw man is pretty weak.
What it's more like is someone showing up with a Ferrari and me going "You know, I think I'd prefer to take the truck because I can't use the Ferrari to move and in most cases I won't be given the opportunity to go as fast as the car can push so I'll take the utility that matches my particular idiom."
And that's just it. I like DP since it's more forgiving to a rotation - every now and again I refresh inquisition early or hit TV instead and in those cases I have a 20% chance of getting a "do over." Also while HA and SW certainly give the maximum theoretical DPS they don't work out that way in the game I'm playing. I don't have someone funneling me tricks with skull banner up while under hysteria and time warp/lust. That's an amount of coordination that is impossible at the level of game I'm currently playing. So Instead I'm happy to just show up in LFR gear with a few valor pieces and rock my 75 to 80k and have fun.
And in doing so I'm not impacting your game one bit.
Really? Wow. I thought I was prone to hyperbole.
No. Actually they wouldn't, well some of them might but then again I've raided with a few 60+ year old folks who did great and in their cases it would be sleeping with their wives or girlfriends.
I've been the serious raider. The ONLY time that 1% even matters is when you're pushing content and missing enrage timers by seconds. Even then the answer often times has less to do with a single talent choice by a single player and much more to do with proper execution of the fight by the raid group. Having people get out of the fire faster, having people move just far enough so they aren't wasting time they could be casting, having the melee in the correct areas, anticipation of adds and their fast removal so DPS can get back to the boss.
Ha ha ha. Wow, I'm quite impressed that I've managed to both insult and demoralize you! That actually makes me smile a bit.
And it's a good thing you don't have the extra votes needed to remove me from an LFR. If you did everyone would miss out on me cracking jokes about the size of my wedding tackle.
Either way, there's a HUGE difference between showing up to a raid completely untalented, wearing gear outside of your role, lacking raid awareness and unwillingness to listen to criticism compared to choosing a DPS talent with a 5% variance that fits your playstyle over two others that do not.
And really you wouldn't have to worry about me raiding with you. Any guild I created I would have benched you for being so uptight that I think your ass could do double duty as a bottle opener.
Unclench man! It's a GAME!