Did my 1st raid tonight. I swapped to Warlock after Elemental Shaman bored me. I will say, I didn’t do terrible considering I was focusing on fights and trying not to die, but I felt I could do… better?
I’d like to at least parse above 50% so I feel bad when I don’t. I’d rather be a DPS that helps carry a group, I don’t want to be a DPS who is carried or drags a group down.
When my dps is low, I tell myself it’s because I did other important things that helped carry the group like interrupt and generally look fabulous dodging fire.
nah, but anyone who cares about dps in lfr has issues so 
if no one complains, you don’t occupy the floor, you don’t wipe the raid, and you do what you’re supposed to, then I’d think you’re doing great. as long as you aren’t in some kinda ultra competitive guild and in that case, you probably already know what you gotta do…
Honestly, as a healer, I appreciate this far more than someone who just tunnels the boss and won’t stay out of bad. I legit will triage dps, based off of things like this. In the long run, you do more dps staying alive.
Constantly. 
Never. But not every can be as talented or humble as I am.
I watched a mage conjure food and then do tailoring stuff through a whole boss fight in lfr. Somehow he was not bottom dps. As long as we aren’t wiping, a kill is a kill, no matter how it gets done.
On my UHDK? Yes. But they took away my puzzle box and that makes me unhappy.
On my Evoker? Press all the buttons at the start and have a boss in my face VERY angry at me. It’s fun.
It’s nothing to feel bad about as long as you treat it as an opportunity to learn.
This time can be about the learning and next time can be about results.
I was doing a dungeon on my dev evoker last night. Just one of the heroics for that new weekly quest. And man it felt bad. Everything was dying super slow. It felt like all the dps was lacking. I don’t use meters so I couldn’t see who was doing what. No one said anything. We just quietly (and slowly) finished then all left without a word.
Anyway it turns out my talents got partially reset and I hadn’t noticed. I had 11 points unallocated. Woops!
Yes. Today.
I was kicked out of Normal Aberrus on the Amalgamation Chamber because the pally tank with a dubious character name who had to ask “what does swap at 15 stacks mean” repeatedly wiped the raid with bad tank swapping that he and the RL agreed to. The he screeched over and over that “it’s a DPS issue” like he learned that from watching other raiders in PUGs elsewhere, and the inexperienced RL kicked everyone with what he thought was “low” DPS and told them uninstall and play Fortnite even though their DPS was “low” because they were doing mechanics and not parsing like madpeople. That PUG didn’t last past one more pull.
Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong in Azeroth anymore. Stuff like this makes me feel sad and second guess myself.
what else would u be doing as a dps tho?
We’re night elves - we’re SUPPOSED to stand in the fire. And look fabulous doing it.