State of the Game: Personal Player Feedback and Stats on PvE Content [No Parsers Plz]

[KaivaC]

I'm also particularly troubled about the suggestions around healing and tanking - rewarding players for unnecessarily wasting resources on these things is detrimemtal. Healers and Tanks should be graded the same way dps are - as a measure of their PPS. If you want to play a tank in tank stance or a zero dps healer that's fine but those things should still be winding up in the E-F section because they are objectively worse than their counterparts.

From the state of mind of those who do view those metrics as absolutely vital, agree that things like tank stance only tanks and zero dps healers should be graded between E-F for the fights that it would matter the most in, i.e savage and ex. For the majority of the player base, mostly casuals that don't have an interest in raiding, I don't think having grading set to that level would do anybody any favors - it would do more to incense casuals more than anything, in my opinion if it was not restricted to the areas where that would matter the most - i.e. the endgame.

Would it slow down runs in level 70 dungeons more than necessary? Absolutely. But I don't think it would be fair to apply what is a natural standard from higher level players to the casual base that may or may not want to adjust to it.

For raiders, of course, naturally, this is something of common sense in order to succeed and maximize your potential. But when applied to the player base as a whole, the metrics would be a little difficult to apply. Only speaking from what I personally know, but the tank stance thing would be tough to apply in...say, a place like Skalla where a tank new to the duty is averaging an ilvl of 310, and everybody else averages around 350-365. It would be a bit tough for them to drop tank stance and maintain aggro unless everybody was on the same page to help maintain hate for the tank. That's not to say of the nightmare they would face in a 24-man run with 23 other players who are potentially higher than they are in gear.