I was removed from a group after stone legion generals on heroic because of low dps when I did every mechanic perfectly.
I personally witnessed multiple people mess the glaive mechanic up and not move out.
Nobody soaked anything the entire fight but me.
I’m constantly dodging abilities, and properly moving glaives out.
The icing on the cake? (I’m not making this up, i am 100% serious. Wish i had logs, but i dont.) I did every mechanic perfectly and was one of 6 people left at the end of the fight. Each of the generals was at less than 10k health and i killed them. I saved a wipe.
And my reward? Being removed.
Am I upset? Yes. Do i care if i get roasted? No. I know that I’m a better player than most people and i proved it that boss fight.
A message to all raid leaders: you need to evaluate your priorities if you think DPS if the sole factor in a boss fight or not. What matters is being a good raider. And that’s the truth. This experience has made me really regret joining pickup groups. Because pickup groups are full of bad raid leaders.
I will not be reading or responding to any comments on this thread. I needed to vent. People are…ugh. I cant go on.
Horde Raiders have child mentalities and lack empathy (At least according to Lore!) You should switch to Alliance if you want reasonable adults to Raid with…
Not sure how low the supposed dps was, but honestly if it was low it doesn’t really matter too much about getting kicked if you were then moving on to Denathrius.
Denathrius final phase is a decent dps check, the group simply wouldn’t have been able to down it without everyone carrying their weight, and since as you said people couldn’t do mechanics phase 1 and 2 would have been a nightmare.
Parses don’t mean anything until your group is clearing the content consistently. This community has such a strange obsession with parses. Good parses come naturally when you get gear and have the content on farm. Bad parses come naturally when you don’t have the content on farm or are new.
Not if the whole group is dying to mechanics lol. They might have parsed orange at the first quarter of the fight, but then they’re dead so it goes down to green.
Then braindead raid leader looks at the numbers and assumes that OP is the worst of the bunch because of the grey parse, even though the real problem is the brainlets ignoring mechanics.
Personally I just side with the OP in this case. It sounds like a dumb raid group led by a dumb raid leader. It’s annoying but OP you’re better off without them.
Realistically it doesn’t matter how good dps you do in the first half of the boss if you then die, you won’t get more than a grey parse.
I’d imagine it’s pretty much impossible to do enough damage that missing out on a whole half or more of the bosses health in damage doesn’t cripple your parse into irrelevance.
Even dying in the last 10-15% guarantee’s you at best a low green on most fights.
The other side-effect of having dps players like that in your group, is that it gives good players like OP a grey parse every time without fail. The fight will last so long and end up in a wipe in most cases, if not a miracle victory by the skin of a few hardcarrying players’ teeth.
It’s just weird to focus on parses for so many reasons. It only gives a vague metric of individual performance until the parses are coming from successful runs with a consistent group. When everything is coming together as a group more or less, then you can start to see how an individual is truly performing by reading their parses. Till then it’s just pretentious negativity.
