Quote Originally Posted by phantomr23 View Post
So, genuine question. I see a lot of people saying that it's fine to single pull because pulling more packs is more effort, but is that really true? You're still doing the same thing regardless of enemy number; DPS do their AOE rotation and stay out of the bad, tanks rotate cooldowns and do their rotation, and healers cycle through oGCD heals, then fill the gaps with GCD heals and DPS until oGCDs come back. The only thing that ever changes based on pack size is the speed at which the healer cycles through their oGCDs, right? If you don't have the DPS to kill the enemies then you'll wipe eventually, but barring very particular pulls where you can go above 2 packs of hard hitting enemies (Bardam's Mettle, Doma Castle. Holminster, either Anyder) this has to be extraordinarily slow to happen. This might come across as a leading question but I'm legitimately curious - what changes when you pull more than one pack in terms of intensity?
In the strictest sense more packs due require more effort and attention because for single pulls one barely has to do much of anything to perform their role.