Protect? Really important? Low level content

[Gorlioliolio]

I have every right to ask people to perform to their fullest in a multiplayer game, regardless of whether I'm paying for their sub or not. If you find that unreasonable, maybe you should stick to playing single player games.

If your healer needs protect before level 50 dungeons to keep you up then they suck too much to play to their fullest. Cleric>aero>stoneskin>swiftcast>protect.

Cleric is obvious, aero because its more potency than any healer nuke, stoneskin buys more time to dps, swiftcast because some dps are stupid and stand in things, and if used right also buys more time to dps cus you can SC an adlo if the tank is dropping slightly quicker.

You want your healer to play to their fullest then they should be putting out as much dps as possible while keeping everyone alive, if they fail at keeping people alive (stupid dps who stand in everything excluded) then the problem isn't protect it's the healer.

This is contradictory. If I'm asking for protect (whether that means they just swap to it at the start of the dungeon and switch it out later, keep it on their bar permanently, or whatever they want to do), then I'm asking them to play to the best of their ability. Protect > no protect in 100% of situations. So "demanding" that they cast it is absolutely not unreasonable.

While it might be better for mitigation in every circumstance, waiting an extra minute to start a duty so you can swap to protect then swap back is not. 99% of time tank won't wait and you will wipe because as soon as they get protect it means time to pull. Considering most dungeon runs take about 20 minutes that 5% extra mitigation also makes it take 5% more time, which is not worth it when any half decent healer is more than capable without it and a really good healer is not only capable but by not having protect they can excel at speeding the run of the dungeon up.