Just remove healers.

[Silverbane]

Regarding whether I as SGE can out-DPS a DPS when doing AoE:

No, you wouldn't. Good DPS burst for significantly more than healers. Either you aren't playing with good DPS players or you're assuming they aren't good when in reality they're conversing their kit for the upcoming boss or a larger pack. Assuming all things equal, if you put a DRG with everything ready to go against SGE in a ten pull pack. That DRG will outshine you by a mile.

I don't run a DRG but I do run a DNC, so to counter your evidence-free assertions of Revealed Truth, I decided to crank the numbers of DNC vs. SGE for multi-target AoE.
Conveniently, both have point-blank non-diminishing AoEs with the same radius.

First, I baselined damage per potency at Stone-Sky-Sea L60 Basic Training outside Idylshire. Both the DNC and SGE were overlevel and overgeared, so they were both synced down to the same level and iLvl.

My SGE did about 4.1 base damage per point of potency, DNC did 3.9.
Given how damage varies, they were both basically doing the same damage per potency, so comparing potencies will be indicative of the damage they do.

Calculating SGE AoE average potency for spamming Dyskrasia is easy: at this level, it's 160, every GCD. And of course, you can still heal/sheild.mitigate with oGCDs as you do. Note that if Phlegma is off CD, this number will go up.

For DNC, you need to create a Markov tree, because you have a base 2-beat rotation of 100 and 140 (proc'd) potency, a 50% chance in those two beats for each of a 140 and 180 potency attack to become available (that each consume another GCD), and a 50% chance for each of those procs to get an oGCD 100 potency AoE attack (Fan Dance II).

Do the math, and you find that DNC potency doing their AoE rotation ranges from 120 (no procs, happens relatively often) to 190 (everything procs, happens pretty rarely), with the average potency per GCD being 146.

So there you go. Under the experimental conditions above, a SGE will on average out-DPS a DNC by 10% when doing multi-target AoE.

Feel free to duplicate the experiment and the math if you can stand learning the truth.
Feel free to do it at different levels and iLvls and DPS classes; maybe the winner changes.

But this proves that all those that said I was lying or only running against incompetent DPS when I claimed to out do those DPS at AoE as an SGE are just plain wrong. And their error is either because they are too lazy or too stupid to do the math or were just being dishonest.

Edit: I note that I've neglected Standard Step in the above analysis, and if the DNC can be optimally positioned when they finish it, it will bring them closer to the SGE's output, because Standard Step is a big part of DNC's AoE damage output. Maybe someday I'll go back and add that complication to the analysis (along with the minor damage buffs available, and Phlegma for SGE to be fair) -- I don't expect anyone else here to do so, because I don't see any evidence that they have the necessary analytical skills -- but for now, the analysis clearly shows SGE's ability to contribute damage at a level comparable to a DPS in a very common situation.