Progression: Eos+AST vs Selene+WHM

[Kaurie]

The question is whether a general 1.5% dps buff (roughly.. it's not entirely accurate) is worth losing out on if the main healer can get in a few more DPS casts. If a group averages 1300 dps without the buff, nor the extra dps casts (includes healer/tank dps), for a total of 10400 dps, or 624k damage per minute..
1.5% extra DPS means in this case 9360 extra damage in a minute.

That means every minute, the main healer needs to have at least 9360 more damage output when running with Eos over Selene due to needing to heal less to make this worth it.. This amount of damage is roughly equivalent to 4 gcds from my experience.. That is actually a pretty significant requirement, so I don't think, from a DPS perspective it's worth going for Eos.

But, if you're still progressing, and need to practice mechanics, going with Eos can make things a bit easier on the main healer, so they can focus more on mechanics until they have that down well enough you can swap to selene..

Personally, I think that fitting in 4 more GCD's per minute is totally plausible with pumping out a 20% healing buff to both your WHM/AST and Eos and using whispering dawn. That sheds a lot of the healing requirement on the SCH him/herself quite substantially. Also, your Raid DPS seems quite high. The Hummelfaust raid dps check, for example, is 8500 or 510k per minute. That 1.5% extra DPS = 7650 damage then. Depending on the skills used, crits etc, this could be 2-4 GCD's.

In regards to Hummel, personally our raid team just meets this (8.7k ish) with both me as SCH and our OT (WAR) full out DPSing. In an actual environment where SCH is healing more and WAR is tank swapping more, then the raid dps would be less. Add on to this mechanics which take away DPS completely (jumps etc.) Our raid team could definitely have improved DPS, but our Raid DPS for A5S actual fight is much closer to 6k.