To all the people complaining about DPSing in an off role

[Dererk]

Last I checked healers wer still complaining about no accuracy on gear.

Also right side tank gear has no str last I checked gimi a min....... Nope no str on a tank ring just vit and other secondarys.

Also didn't they say that they didn't design the new raids at all with healer dps?

The whole more dps meta is nothing but a byproduct of people trying to get Alex savage world first when you were meant to gear slowly.

[Dererk]

This thread and the mentality it pushes is the prime example of why healers and tanks are becoming angry at the community.

and why there are such long qu times for stuff lol.

At lest for dps.

Then the problem goes how would they even balance the if the trinity was broken. How do you balance something where every one can tank heal and push high dps. All I see is less interesting fights. I'm not even going to go into how duty finder random party's would be broken.

[Cabalabob]

I think the issue of people wanting jobs to do their job is that they have a colourful sticker telling them what their job is. In 1.0 WAR could dps or tank based on their gear setup and cross class skills, they weren't shoehorned into the tank role. And before jobs were even a thing ANY class could be a tank dps or healer if they setup their skills right, though they were better suited to certain roles, like GLA was mainly a tank. But there was nothing saying you ARE this job like in ARR. even in ARR beta the stickers weren't a thing until they added the duty finder, I took a lnc as my tank for tam Tara in beta because there was nothing that said gla is the only tank.

[Dererk]

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Wrong in 1.0 WAR was pretty much forced to tank because unlike in 3.0 despite peoples complaining PLD couldn't hold hate in 1.0.

[Nephera]

tanks and healers become excruciating to play in any sort of solo content when they have no dps stance or passable dps in pretty much any game.

[Alex_Lenderson]

I also feel the complaints about healers 'having to dps' are mostly done by players who will never enter fights where their dps as a healer is ever required to be successful. Cleric Stance, Fluid Aura, Dots, HOLY all scream to me that devs have ALWAYS wanted healers to do at least some DPS.

[Mandze]

I enjoy DPSing as WHM, but until they put more accuracy on our gear or give us food good enough to get us anywhere remotely near the cap, nobody should be relying on healer DPS. There have been plenty of times when my raid group was pushing a DPS check and I watched three or four Stone IIIs miss in a row where one would have been enough to push us to where we needed to be. I feel like I'm just throwing my MP away half the time. Hell, I'd be happy with a long cooldown ability that buffed my accuracy for ONE spell. That'd be good for need-to-hit situations.

[Shug]

[QUOTE=SargentToughie;3443276]That's not true at all.

This game has practically zero solo content.


What game are you playing? Most of the game is solo. Quests, leves, fates, leveling, far out number the group content.

[rappa]

I enjoy DPSing as WHM, but until they put more accuracy on our gear or give us food good enough to get us anywhere remotely near the cap, nobody should be relying on healer DPS. There have been plenty of times when my raid group was pushing a DPS check and I watched three or four Stone IIIs miss in a row where one would have been enough to push us to where we needed to be. I feel like I'm just throwing my MP away half the time. Hell, I'd be happy with a long cooldown ability that buffed my accuracy for ONE spell. That'd be good for need-to-hit situations.

Put a bard in your group, embrace the bard, love the "Rain of Death"!

[Shug]

I also feel the complaints about healers 'having to dps' are mostly done by players who will never enter fights where their dps as a healer is ever required to be successful. Cleric Stance, Fluid Aura, Dots, HOLY all scream to me that devs have ALWAYS wanted healers to do at least some DPS.

Thats 100% right Alex. Problem is, people are expecting alex savage performance in duty roulette, a place where we all know not to expect much of anything. The meta has gone from raiding to leveling dungeons.