Healer & Tank DPS (WoW vs FFXIV)

[Taika]

Love healers like you. I can go full DPS for the boss fights and just use the cooldowns for tank busters.

Erm, you should be able to do all dungeon bosses in Deliverance even with your healer DPSing... These two aren't exclusive. But please use your cooldowns for trash pulls (and big tank busters, if there are any), and don't change to Deliverance on trash until there are so few monsters left you know you can handle then.

The best tank I've had was random DF WAR who made the 5 group pull in Ala Mhigo and was in Deliverance as much as possible. I was still able to DPS as WHM (it's around i310) and it was an amazing run!

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

don't change to Deliverance on trash until there are so few monsters left you know you can handle then!

Wrong. A WAR doesn't get any defensive buffs except increased spell healing, and most healers use oGCD's to heal, not spells. A WAR in Defiance on trash makes me sigh because he's sacrificing damage in exchange for literally nothing. Defiance might as well not even exist for SCH.

[Shurrikhan]

Wrong. A WAR doesn't get any defensive buffs except increased spell healing, and most healers use oGCD's to heal, not spells. A WAR in Defiance on trash makes me sigh because he's sacrificing damage in exchange for literally nothing. Defiance might as well not even exist for SCH.

The massive weakness of one tank's tank stance... that one in five of its users cannot even recognize.

I do hope they'll eventually turn Defiance into a buff to all healing taken, including self-healing and damage-converted healing, but until then I guess it still stands as a decent tooltip comprehension check?

[alimdia]

Wrong. A WAR doesn't get any defensive buffs except increased spell healing, and most healers use oGCD's to heal, not spells. A WAR in Defiance on trash makes me sigh because he's sacrificing damage in exchange for literally nothing. Defiance might as well not even exist for SCH.

It's not as useful as the other two, but not "literally nothing" either.

The tank's HP is a buffer, that buffer determines how much the healer can DPS before having to heal. The +healing effect works on embrace, whispering dawn, regen and aspected benefic, I dare say those are the main heals in big pulls.