Quote Originally Posted by glamazon View Post
Hybrid is good but how they do dps is what should be different.
Whm gets more damage abilities for personal dps

SCH gets more debuffs which would make the whole party do more damage indirectly

AST gets buffs which make the whole party do more damage

All three would be viable
The issue with this is that to balance it between 4/8man is very difficult because dungeons and raids are very different.

When you only have one healer in a dungeon you'd want it to be a WHM because if the other two are tuned around buffing party dps in what would be a single target, 8 player situation they aren't going to hold up in the jumps between AoE and ST in a dungeon nearly as well as raw WHM numbers.

Part of this is offset right now by WHM having the weakest potency AoE ability and even with that in mind the max dps contribution of WHM in Hero's Gauntlet is 3k above SCH and 4k above AST. If you grow that gap too far you'll be back in ARR dsys where they were kicking SCHs from dungeons because WHM was that much better.

Buffs/debuffs are just really unreliable. I say this as essentially an AST main at this point. The crux of part of your own contribution being reliant on that of other players is that the other players be... like at the very least not dumpster fires.

I dunno if you're aware but a good portion of players, especially in DF content, are kinda dumpster fires. No real rotation, dps below a tank or healer... it hurts to be spending cards on myself and the tank in expert roulette but more often than it should be that's the efficent choice for me.

So no, I dont want to exacerbate the current personal dps v rDPS contribution thing. It leads to bad places.