Healer design is still terrible and I'm tired of apologizing for it.

[Sebazy]

So a bunch of elite statics manage to break an encounter with non standard comps and it's all doom & gloom, WoW had better encounter designs?

I recall Ultimates with 8 tanks happening before. Just because it can happen, does not mean 99% of the playerbase will manage such a feat, and the average PF out there don't find any challenge in these encounters.

Suggesting it takes an elite static to break Zodork EX is a stretch tbh. This was linked in the other thread about this and it's a telling watch. Note that both healers died to Astral2 roughly a minute prior leaving it as a 6 man run to clear the rest.

https://youtu.be/T6MvwQWBMVg?t=532

Let's look a little closer at it.

8:58 - Shield Samba goes up
8:59 - Divine Veil goes up and Curing Waltz gets fired off early wasting the heal from both
9:00 - AoEs start hitting
9:01 - Shake it off goes up
9:05 - Tank LB3 goes off soaking the last two hits
9:06 - Mechanic done, no one died.

A few observations from that. The reaper and dancer came closest to dieing, everyone else was pretty safe.

Now before you say 'But they needed LB3 to survive that!' I'll preemptively counter with 2 clear points: If they had have had the full 8 people for the stack, it wouldn't have been nearly as close and secondly, they could have made it safer for themselves by not wasting Curing Waltz or the heal portion of Divine Seal early (That's 10k hp or roughly 20% of a HP bar wasted right there). I also suspect that no one used Feint looking at the scrolling text. That's another big chunk of mitigation gone.

Was that an elite static? The fact that they had 45 minutes on the timer suggests that they most certainly weren't.

Keep in mind that this is a mechanic that happens 3 times in a 9+ minute fight with the last two being spaced 2 minutes apart, cooldowns are not an issue whatsoever. Thank god the first one at least has a 1hp mechanic beforehand or we really would be seeing 0 healer runs in PF IMHO.

*Edit*

Sauce:

So this happened in a random pug I joined trying to get more practice with ninja.
https://youtu.be/T6MvwQWBMVg?t=474