Astro in savage

[Leiloni]

This seems a bit suspect to me, mainly because healer DPS only gets better as a group gets more geared and for them to outright IGNORE its existence is just bizarre.

If healers are able to DPS now when everyone has worse gear (weaker heals, lower HP, etc.), they should only be able to do even MORE DPS when players are geared to the point where the content will feel almost trivial...

Yes but their point was in that quote was to say that once your whole group has enough gear, healer dps is not needed to clear. So sure your healers will have more dps, but so will your tanks and dps. They don't care if healers dps to make it go faster, but they're not making it required to clear, simply because that would severely limit the amount of players that can clear the content (and then you'd have a Wildstar style situation on your hands). That's a big difference.

Realistically no game balances anything around the 1%, because you want to make games and most of the content accessible.