Never thought I would see dps queues faster then healer.

[xxhieixx]

In terms of difficulty, they already mentioned that healer dps would be considered when balancing the dps checks in alexander savage, so it might be more challenging in the future. This might also be the reason why whm got so many new ways to dps (although granted most groups will likely just wait till they are overgeared and the checks can be met without healer dps).

Eh...I really don't like the whole "healers need to dps thing" I do it since I want to optimize my class but it hasn't been something I ever really enjoyed. Disappointed to hear that they commented on implementing this more =/

[KisaiTenshi]

Eh...I really don't like the whole "healers need to dps thing" I do it since I want to optimize my class but it hasn't been something I ever really enjoyed. Disappointed to hear that they commented on implementing this more =/

Nowhere has that been said. Nobody yet knows what the new skills are, just speculation based on what they've seen. Nobody knows how they will yet be used in the dungeons.

If it's anything like at ARR release, the healers DPS has never mattered if the DPS were at or above the levelsync. The complaints back THEN were how hard Amdapor Keep and Wanderers Place were too hard unless you had maxed out on darklight gear (with is ilevel 70), and people were actually gear-checking (this was before the ilevel requirements) to kick people who weren't wearing all darklight.

It's not unreasonable to think that they may have made the dungeon difficulty harder because players are using healers to raise the party DPS up when the gear minimizes damage taken. So what that means is that they could make everything hit harder even with BiS gear, or make the monsters react differently to healers DPS.

In other news...

Healer Queues were nearly instant today.

[Seku]

Snip.

Actually they were talking about adding it into raids, healer dps that is. They also are doing a lot to have healer's basicly auto heal so they can dps and if Pld's new move, where you heal them and everyone around gets a shield, is short on it's cool down, then you have that on pld too to further push for healers to DPS. While it's not something that will be "bare min" right now, it would appear they are heavily pushing for it.

[PetiteMalFleur]

Actually they were talking about adding it into raids, healer dps that is. They also are doing a lot to have healer's basicly auto heal so they can dps and if Pld's new move, where you heal them and everyone around gets a shield, is short on it's cool down, then you have that on pld too to further push for healers to DPS. While it's not something that will be "bare min" right now, it would appear they are heavily pushing for it.

Actually they said the opposite. They said healer dps will be needed to meet dps checks when trying to clear in lower than intended item level, just like FCoB, but they are NOT adding healer dps in to their dps calculations.

[Cynfael]

Eh...I really don't like the whole "healers need to dps thing" I do it since I want to optimize my class but it hasn't been something I ever really enjoyed. Disappointed to hear that they commented on implementing this more =/

Do you need to learn how to DPS as healer to optimize your class? Yes.

Are DPS clear minimums currently set with the assumption of healer DPS? No.