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    axemtitanium's Avatar
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    Jul 2012
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    Titania Basilikos
    World
    Hyperion
    Main Class
    Thaumaturge Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by AIex View Post
    Regardless of what everyone thinks of healer dps, the OP healer probably won't change their mind about it. He/She just wants more accuracy in the gear. Why not address that instead of debating whether or not dps while healing is a good idea because your internet words won't change their philosophy. (I sure as hell can't give any ideas because I don't play healer)
    Thanks man. I don't really care about what other people think about the merits/demerits of dps'ing as a healer. I'll do it because it helps my raid. If you don't do it, that's fine too (though I reserve the right to judge you for it silently).

    What I want to know is why they decided to undertune the amount of accuracy on new gear. This obviously 100% doesn't matter to 99% of the playerbase who is not a world-first oriented progression raider since all dps checks in this game can be outgeared over time. However, in full i110 (aka old BiS), there is an upper limit to the amount of damage 4 DPS and 2 tanks can do with perfect rotations and that's a hard limit based on damage calculations and math. Sometimes this hard upper limit is smaller than the raid dps that the fight requires---I would definitely say this is the case with T10 and T11 which is where my raid is at right now. Thus, healer dps is the only way to exceed that limit and meet the hard enrage timer. Look at all of the Lucrezia world first kill videos and you'll see healers dps'ing as hard as they can and they STILL only barely meet enrage timer in some of them. Obviously the healer dps "requirement" is relaxed as the raid's gear level increases and the 4 DPS / 2 tank damage output can meet the raid check without the healer's contribution. However, that doesn't change the fact that 1) devs want healers to be able to hit stuff in endgame content and 2) they did not add enough accuracy in this patch to satisfy #1.
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    Last edited by axemtitanium; 11-08-2014 at 04:38 AM.