Stone,Sky,Sea

[ScarletDawn]

How does dealing damage to a dummy help me heal? Surely it should be more like (another MMO) where you are told to heal a tank or heal a target taking damage the tank would take in the fight...kinda useless to me as a healer what my dps is...since i wont be damaging that much.

[AlphaFox]

How does dealing damage to a dummy help me heal? Surely it should be more like (another MMO) where you are told to heal a tank or heal a target taking damage the tank would take in the fight...kinda useless to me as a healer what my dps is...since i wont be damaging that much.

When they were first put in for base item level they expect the healer to be contributing as well, while not much its just saying "This is how much you need to be doing while healing". Again though, that is more bottom line, if the DPS are well geared you can easily get by without having to do as much as the dummy says.

[KarstenS]

When they were first put in for base item level they expect the healer to be contributing as well.

Something that is false will not get the truth by endless repeating.

There is an official interview that has been translated on the Blue Garter page where Yoshida clearly stated, that they do not count healer DPS into the numbers you need to finish any content. It is only getting relevant when you are at a lower iLvl than the content is meant for.

And for the dummy they said:

We thought about whether we should add a healer-specific version of Stone, Sky, Sea, as many healers like to DPS as well, and decided to add one just for fun, so give it a try!

[ScarletDawn]

When they were first put in for base item level they expect the healer to be contributing as well, while not much its just saying "This is how much you need to be doing while healing". Again though, that is more bottom line, if the DPS are well geared you can easily get by without having to do as much as the dummy says.

Well i get that but its unrealistic in terms of telling a healer how good they are, im only ilvl 200 and i only just failed the midas one, i could of skipped my dots as they were a dps lost for me, but i ended on 11% for someone who doesn't really dps as a whm i think i did good, maybe 700 dps overall...for me i would be on par with a bad dps so i guess that is ok.

But it doesn't tell me how well i can heal it.

I understand it was just for fun, but im worried people might see it as a filter system and force healers to do it.

[Eidolon]

i could of skipped my dots as they were a dps lost for me,

Assuming you mean White Mage;
Stone III = 210 potency
Aero III = 50 + (40*8) = 50 + 320 = 370 potency (Slightly longer cast so not sure if worth it for ST.)
Aero II = 50 + (50*4) = 50 + 200 = 250 potency
Aero I = 50 + (25*6) = 50 + 150 = 200 potency - Can be paired with Fluid Aura to prevent a DPS loss from delaying GCD (+150 potency)

I dont' really see a single case - except maybe Aero (I'd have to see some theory crafting if the delay of a GCD is worth it) where you can say "I could skip my DoT's because they were a DPS loss."