A tank's concern

[Feidam]

healers do more damage than tanks, so the dps meta says the paladin should focus on healing.

Healers and tanks both need to get over the idea of they NEED to dps. Throw dps as able but only as a secondary option. White mage with holy is an exception as that stun is good mitigation. Too many healers and tanks are only there to pew pew.

[KalinOrthos]

Healers and tanks both need to get over the idea of they NEED to dps. Throw dps as able but only as a secondary option. White mate with holy is an exception as that stun is good mitigation. Too many healers and tanks are only there to pew pew.

but the meta tho

[Feidam]

but the meta tho

I know right. We, my normal group, sat down last night and actually took a look at how hard the new mobs are hitting. The small trash auto attack for 1k non crit and the large trash hit from 3 to 5k. Start getting Crits and direct hits and boom tank drops like a rock. The dungeons are not the same as they were at endgame HW. At least not yet. The my deeps meta that is lingering is causing more harm than good in the average duty queue.

[KalinOrthos]

I know right. We, my normal group, sat down last night and actually took a look at how hard the new mobs are hitting. The small trash auto attack for 1k non crit and the large trash hit from 3 to 5k. Start getting Crits and direct hits and boom tank drops like a rock. The dungeons are not the same as they were at endgame HW. At least not yet. The my deeps meta that is lingering is causing more harm than good in the average duty queue.

Man, I roll my eyes so hard at anyone who unironically refers to the meta for what they should be going for. I swear, a lot of the people who seriously use it as a standard to go by use it as some sort of holy book requiring strict adherence. That's not to say that it doesn't have its uses, but when we get too many people saying "Well, it's meta to do this", we get to the garbage we have now.

[Feidam]

Man, I roll my eyes so hard at anyone who unironically refers to the meta for what they should be going for. I swear, a lot of the people who seriously use it as a standard to go by use it as some sort of holy book requiring strict adherence. That's not to say that it doesn't have its uses, but when we get too many people saying "Well, it's meta to do this", we get to the garbage we have now.

I was agreeing with your sarcastic take on the meta not agreeing with the meta. The rest of the post was to show the amount of damage people are taking to highlight they need to be backing away from it. So I think we are agreeing with it each other.

[KalinOrthos]

I was agreeing with your sarcastic take on the meta not agreeing with the meta. The rest of the post was to show the amount of damage people are taking to highlight they need to be backing away from it. So I think we are agreeing with it each other.

Oh, I wasn't criticizing you. I was just showing my exasperation with the people who follow the meta as scripture. It was not meant at you, I was just jumping off your point. I'm sorry if I made it seem like I was criticizing you, I didn't mean it that way at all.