Live Letter Response to Current Healer Accuracy Issues

[Ashelia_Ferron]

I don't think it has to do with giving healers an "edge" and more so to do with trying not to encourage healer DPS being required.

With things the way they are now, very few statics are going to turn away healers for not having capped accuracy since they know the cost is quite high.

However, give healers free accuracy, and now statics will automatically expect you to do like 900 DPS or something.

This also causes DPS to become complacent, as if healers can bring 1000 DPS, that's 1000 less that they have to do. So a good healer can end up "carrying" some bad DPS.

[Myrhn]

I don't think it has to do with giving healers an "edge" and more so to do with trying not to encourage healer DPS being required.

With things the way they are now, very few statics are going to turn away healers for not having capped accuracy since they know the cost is quite high.

However, give healers free accuracy, and now statics will automatically expect you to do like 900 DPS or something.

This also causes DPS to become complacent, as if healers can bring 1000 DPS, that's 1000 less that they have to do. So a good healer can end up "carrying" some bad DPS.

This is what I fear. I don't mind dpsing as a healer when I have the time and leeway to do it in dungeons but in raids is another story. I won't dps if im learning the content since i want to see how far away can we get and all mechanics and the best way to do that is focusing on healing. And the way dps are, at least in Hyperion, there are some awfull ones that i dont know what they are doing that fight feels really long. SE design the raid w/o healer dps, let me say that again w/o healer dps in mind. So saying that you NEED the healer dps to beat is just plain wrong, DPS and tanks please dont be lazy and learn your stuff to uptimize dps and then ask for healers to dps.

[RiisWolf]

I don't think it has to do with giving healers an "edge" and more so to do with trying not to encourage healer DPS being required.

With things the way they are now, very few statics are going to turn away healers for not having capped accuracy since they know the cost is quite high.

However, give healers free accuracy, and now statics will automatically expect you to do like 900 DPS or something.

This also causes DPS to become complacent, as if healers can bring 1000 DPS, that's 1000 less that they have to do. So a good healer can end up "carrying" some bad DPS.

That's exactly how after Gordias Savage we don't have better DPS. Only more healers parading to be DPS and people honestly believing healer DPS was ever factored into the raid's require DPS at all. .___.