Remember When Tanks Asked Before Large Pulls?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Unrelated, but I echo the sentiment that big pulls are a snoozefest, both as a tank and as a healer, and have been so since the middle of the 2.X series. Regardless of role, I come close to dozing because AoE is so ridiculously simple to perform. You could macro it as pretty much any job and lose very, very little in the damage department.

And small packs aren't? If I pull 3-4 mobs at a time and you're my healer, I literally have no use for you. Seriously, you could /sit and I wouldn't even notice because small packs just don't hit hard enough. Equilibrium, Inner Beast, DA + Abyssal Drain and Clemency make healers utterly irrelevant unless tanks pull the room. Hilariously, three of those abilities don't even have cooldowns.

Well, I find small packs more engaging because then I actually need to start using a proper rotation in order to bring them down quickly, rather than, as an example, hitting Cleric Stance and my macro that chain casts Aero3 into several holies.

For one, macro-ing abilities like that is a notable DPS loss. You should never macro anything except to give a chat warning (raise, berserk and etc). Anywho, you should still be Holy spamming with small pulls. Three mobs nets a combined potency of 540 per cast whereas Stone III is only 210 on a single target. Considering the tank will need no healing whatsoever, MP wouldn't be much of an issue. So I don't see where exactly you get to use a rotation. Likewise, DPS jobs are similar. Rockbreaker, Doom Spike and etc all remain a higher potency overall than single target abilities on 2-3+ mobs. Small pulls basically amount to the exact same thing. It only takes longer.