What makes dps (aka dd role) fun for you in ESO?

Tasear

How do you enjoy this role or more like why?

Is the the animations?

Does something just feel right playing this role with a certain class?

The playstyle (fast, slow, bow, two hander, bow),

is it competition or completion?. Do you need to be the best or just be one of many?

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greylox

I just like it better than healing and tanking which are too stressful. Support class would be my favourite but they do t really exist in this game.

Drdeath20

Damage dealers really do make or break a group. I was getting sick of spending hours healing lowbie damage dealers that have no business in vet dungeons. When i que up i know that i can carry enough damage to complete any dungeon on any mode.

DKsUnite

greylox wrote: »

I just like it better than healing and tanking which are too stressful. Support class would be my favourite but they do t really exist in this game.

See I feel the opposite. Having to be on point with rotation and gear seems more stressful to me. Where as I literally come out of Cyrodiil in my pvp gear and slot a taunt and jump into a dungeon.

jeedrzej

I can burn people and other stuff. So dd is the only reasonable role

profundidob16_ESO

jeedrzej wrote: »

I can burn people and other stuff. So dd is the only reasonable role

Have you ever been in therapy for this or visited a shrink at least ?

Thestephenmcraeub17_ESO

I like the personal challenge of trying to get my numbers as high as possible. Unfortunately, I main a mDK, so I inadvertently disadvantaged myself, as I'll always be competing with stamblades for a melee trial spot, but never be able to out DPS them

jeedrzej

profundidob16_ESO wrote: »

jeedrzej wrote: »

I can burn people and other stuff. So dd is the only reasonable role

Have you ever been in therapy for this or visited a shrink at least ?

No. What for?

Sparr0w

Reactive fast gameplay & burn phases when the boss is in execute so your group ignores mechanics in hope you can kill it first

SirMewser

Cast times!!

Mister_DMC

Fast pace, animation cancelling and split second reaction times. Always loved those types of games. Challenge arenas are often my favorite content.

Agenericname

I prefer healing, but I find DD slightly more suitable in ESO. Tanking really never appealed to me in any game I've ever played.

I'm not a heavy hitter, but I bring enough damage to get us through most of the content that I play, so it alleviates some of the stress when I play with friends that are weak in damage.

Healers, or more specifically their role, isnt well defined in ESO across the board.

DPS as a metric is quantifiable, which makes improvements slightly more measurable on a personal level. I'm aware that they're not the be-all-end-all, but it removes some of the guess work that you would find as a support role in PUG.

Nuking stuff is fun.

Camb0Sl1ce

watching a bosses health bar drop in seconds, and always pushing for higher numbers.

Drdeath20

I like healing more. Buffing a group up and letting my super powered damage dealers and tanks loose. Problem is a do a ton of random vet dungeons and the damage dealer pool can be underwhelming. As a healer i am at the damage dealers mercy. Soo a dungeon that would take me ~15-30 minutes to complete as a damage dealer now takes hours because the CP 300 and CP 307 damage dealer dont have the burn.

ruikkarikun

• Fast gameplay (instant skills)
• For me range mage classes feel more interesting then stamina dds
• Range aoe mage skills
• For sorc I enjoy shock, electric abilities, for other mage classes all in general, but again I feel tha game is missing FROST mage setup
• Don't like main stream, feel good using my own desicions how to make setups/what abilities use etc

HonestGabe

I mostly Pvp minus the lvl grind and while i dont mind having a healer or tank alt/spec I prefer to be able to kill people lol.

Starlock

It used to be fun for me.

Then I learned about people pulling what to me are obscenely high damage numbers that shouldn't even be possible in this game... and the expectation that if you don't do that you are apparently terrible or other assorted slang insults that are popular these days. You have to play a very specific way to achieve numbers like that. I was (and still am) not interested in giving up the core reason of why I play this game to chase numbers.

I suppose it's still fun for me when I do it my way. Each character has their own unique style when I do things my way, and that's what makes it interesting. Certain skills are just fun, like throwing an enemy off a cliff with the templar javelin (something very sadly going away next patch... grr!), or seeing something explode in flames or lightning. Not so much a fan of the death effects from poison/disease. It's gross.

pdebie64b16_ESO

Current meta for dps is light attacks between skills because it gives the highest dps on parses because you can use more skills that way, even without using essential dps skills like swallow soul as as magblade. Now parses on a target dummy dont say everything but still in real fights like trials or 4 man dungeons light attacks are king dps wise.

It bothers me that heavy attacks between skills are only good for sustain and give lower dps results as light attacks what means you need to be darn good at light attack weaving to get good numbers and also make harder dungeons/trials less accessable for older or lesser skilled players.

I like to play a dps class but i find it harder to compete this days.

HonestGabe

ruikkarikun wrote: »

• Fast gameplay (instant skills)
• For me range mage classes feel more interesting then stamina dds
• Range aoe mage skills
• For sorc I enjoy shock, electric abilities, for other mage classes all in general, but again I feel tha game is missing FROST mage setup
• Don't like main stream, feel good using my own desicions how to make setups/what abilities use etc

Mag warden using frost destro staff is pretty close to what one would consider a frost mage. Just dont take the first passive im destro staff skill line, unless you want to tank things in a dungeon.

ccmedaddy

Being able to carry disastrous PUGs. I refuse to heal or tank for strangers because there's nothing more soul crushing in this game than holding block in front of the same boss for 1 hour or trying to keep garbage players with 13k health from dying.

ZeroXFF

I usually tank, but what's fun about DPS is that I don't have to hope for a miracle in the dungeon finder to be able to finish a dungeon in a reasonable amount of time.

What's not fun though is that I have to hit light attacks every second and do wonky things like block cancelling Endless Hail. Put LA on the same GCD as skills and shorten skill animations to match the GCD to make DPS fun for more people.

Nox_Noir

ACTION, Speed, killing stuff.
In ESO I usually prefer melee builds, I'm not sure why, they just feel more engaged than standing at a distance and shooting spells. Feels like it's more to do, more action.

RaptorRodeoGod

Tbh, I enjoy dealing massive AOE damage on my StamSorc.

FloppyTouch

I play a dps bc being a tank in pugs with horrible dps got really annoying, so I switched to move things along a bit.

profundidob16_ESO

jeedrzej wrote: »

profundidob16_ESO wrote: »

jeedrzej wrote: »

I can burn people and other stuff. So dd is the only reasonable role

Have you ever been in therapy for this or visited a shrink at least ?

No. What for?

it was a joke mate with me deliberately interpreting your 'confession' in a different way. Wasn't a real question

robpr

Trying to do my best then fighting with raid leader why my parse is almost the same as on dummy due to fps loss.