Tanks&Healers; please focus on Role first, then DPS

[SchalaZeal]

What you're saying by only wanting to sit and heal and do nothing else

Way to misrepresent the poster you're quoting. They never said they didn't want to dps at all, just not primarily.

[MisterLucie]

Way to misrepresent the poster you're quoting. They never said they didn't want to dps at all, just not primarily.

They said there are people who don't want to dps at all, and those are the ones I'm referring to. The "you" is more generalized and not specifically at that poster.

Though I did touch on that specific poster bringing up the regurgitated "we might wipe if I dps and don't pay attention to healing" because that's a ridiculous assertion and no good player will ever be so focused on putting out damage that they'll somehow forget they're a healer...

...which brings me back to the original point of this entire thread only being aimed at bad players, and not specifically healers/tanks who dps.

[SchalaZeal]

That sounds like the tank stepped in something that completely one shot them

Not really, a tank doing a NORMAL trash pull (just one group) in something like Stone Vigil normal, you have time to, Bio, Miasma, Bio 2, Ruin 2 (for Bio 2 to be on mob), Bane, drop cleric, adlo, physick, put cleric up again and keep dpsing. But if the tank got hit by an aoe, forget the Bane or forget the tank. That includes the fairy doing half the job while you dps. It's not that the tank is one-shot, it's that you pass 5 GCDs not healing the tank.

If the tank is badly geared, not using cooldowns, or pulling double or triple pulls, forget having time to Bane.

[MisterLucie]

Not really, a tank doing a NORMAL trash pull (just one group) in something like Stone Vigil normal, you have time to, Bio, Miasma, Bio 2, Ruin 2 (for Bio 2 to be on mob), Bane, drop cleric, adlo, physick, put cleric up again and keep dpsing. But if the tank got hit by an aoe, forget the Bane or forget the tank. That includes the fairy doing half the job while you dps. It's not that the tank is one-shot, it's that you pass 5 GCDs not healing the tank.

No, see, the solution to that is completely simple because you just forget about finishing your dps rotation and focus on immediately saving the tank. You adapt to the situation. It's not a set in stone thing that if you swap to cleric you absolutely have to finish your dps rotation before swapping out.