Quote Originally Posted by pandabearcat View Post

As people have mentioned before participation (past tagging one or two enemies) is based on hate generation, and both tanks and healers are great at it.

I have never heard of a healer in a party doing minimal damage and focusing on healing who did not get a gold when the rest of the party did.
Wrong.

On my WHM, all I do is Aero every single mob in a fate, I don't even have to heal or get the tag first and I get gold medals all the time.

Your contribution is as far as I am aware, based on your xp gained from killing mobs that are attached to that Fate. XP is shared no matter who has agro on the mob or what your postion is on the threat table with that NPC. This then is compounded by those who abuse the tagging system, I can essentially run around a fate, agro everything, get the tag with one aoe or as you metioned, a simple skill like Flash and hey presto, automatic win. So currently, you can do one of two things to get Gold, Tag the mob first so its locked to you (red) and purple to everyone else OR just tag everything with damage of some sort with instant based skills.

But guess what, Aero has an instant cast time, try maximizing your XP gain in a fate with 1 - 2 second cast times where mobs are dead before you get a skill off.

Healing should have a bigger contribution weight then it currently does regardless of wether you are grouped or not, if it even has one to begin with. It is why so many people die on Fates because healers just simply don't heal so they can try for Golds.