DRK AOE Damage

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in short, a correctly played WAR's higher damage does not come at the healer's expense.

We can do an easy comparison. For WAR to not impact healer's ability to dps, mobs HAVE to die in 3 GCDs. That's not possible. On big pulls, you are taking 20-30k per auto from all mobs. No matter how tanky you are, you will still need heal. DRK can sustain about 1/2 of that and TBN blocks almost another 1/2. The only time you need some support from healer is when your TBN is on CD which is an instant 11k 'heal'. Compare that to WAR with very limited self heal and the need to heal makes healers needing to switch it up and heal more.

Let's talk about healer's dps in aoe situation. 1 gcd is 1.5k potency on average. For every heal, you are talking about that much potency lost. When WAR decides to tank, healers will have less uptime. Again, no matter how tanky WAR is, you still need heals. At higher potency, WAR denies healer the ability to dps more. You cant possibly do 6x Decimate for every pull if you look to end in 13mins and it takes a lot of time to build 100 gauge. It takes 4 combos which is about 25s that you are not aoe-ing. Which means that on average you are potentially losing up to 800 potency per gcd for every time you are building up 100 gauge for 6x Decimates.

DRK while enables healer to dps doesn't completely stop doing dps. DRK potency is lower than WAR that's for sure. Remember that every tank still needs heal just that DRK is conveniently as such that you get tools to deal with big pulling. So for what DRK is losing to WAR, healer's dps can offset and surpasses by at least 700 potency per gcd. 700 potency offset that is more consistent and has less swings is how high dps as a team is achieved. My healer friend is consistently doing more dps than me for the entirety of the DREXs, not including Ala Mhigo ofc.