Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
Okay. Now I am convinced you simply don't know healing very well. I have had tanks who were in 235 gear and didn't use a single CD yet I still had downtime, albeit nowhere near my norm. Likewise, I have ran Expert hundreds of times by now and never once have I had to fully heal. In fact, my general average is 60-80% Cleric uptime.

Swiftcast -> Holy -> Cleric Stance -> Divine Seal -> Regen -> Aero III -> Aero II -> Aero -> Fluid Aura -> Presence of Mind -> Stone III

That one HoT will do all the healing I need for most pulls on Solm Al hard. On the few occasions I do get shoddy tanks. I'll drop Cleric after Stone III spam and toss out Tetra.
Your experience is different from mine. I use entirely PUG groups, and have adapted to numerous bad situations. The number of times that I got a "perfect" combo of good tank and good DPS can be counted on one hand. Just last night I had one DF group of three sprouts who didn't even know what direction to go (level 51 dungeon,) followed by one that had two crowns and a player who hadn't completed the dungeon.

I don't mind playing these things when people are learning, but there is no way am I going to tell a tank how to play their role. If they say "use regen on me" I will, if they say "dps that thing" maybe that can be done. But if the extent of their advise is railing on how I play, I'm just going to click off the party chat. I know what I'm doing, unless your advice is actually meaningful, which all "healer must DPS" advice is bunk, I'm not going to care. There is a difference between "you're doing it wrong, quit being bad" and "could you cast X please?"

You know which light party duty tends to have the most downtime from the way I play? Amdapoor Keep (Hard), because people have run this enough that they know how to use the vines to whack the monsters, thus the only wipes don't come from the bosses, but the DPS standing under the vines too. The way this duty is setup, the hardest boss is the boogeyman when players don't pay attention, and that's the one that overhealing becomes a magnet for all the adds. Can't be helped if players ignore the mechanics.

What about 8-man content? people are so bored of 8-man content and it shows when it's designed for two tanks but you only need one tank and one healer to actually get to the boss, and then it becomes something of a joke in Castrum Meridianum at the end. if a tank and healer want to DPS instead, be my guest but don't complain.

I actually find The Praetorium's Ultima Weapon (v2.0) and Keeper of the Lake's Midgardsomr (2.5) some of the better level 50 content that is actually designed to use the healing skills because of the generally high-damage party attacks.

I'd rather play The World of Darkness repeatedly with bad PUG's and expect the occasional carries than play leveling roulette with people who want to be carried by asking for healer DPS. No, you learn to play the duty properly, either by going slower, gearing better, or watching a video if you're unwilling to try things for yourself. It is not a requirement to watch a video either. The healer pulling out the DPS is entirely at the discretion of the healer, and from what I've read on the forums, there's just as many bad healers doing DPS as there are that won't DPS. You are playing a game, this is not a competitive sport, and you are not being paid for it. If you are streaming on Twitch or Youtube, maybe heads-up to avoid making embarrassing comments in the chat.