Quote Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne View Post
I mean, no need to look too far beyond. The current Abyssos' damage frequency has already begun to weed out some healers & 'sylphies' from the raiding scene. While overall AoE damage are still pushover (at least on first 2 floors, I still yet to reach 3rd floor & beyond), the incoming damage to the tanks are 100% on point of what should've been a "tankbuster" imho. Still, I really hope SE do not see this as a sign to double back to Asphodelos' rate of incoming damage though. If this slight increase in healing engagement is enough to weed out that many healers, then I wonder how much more will just raise their hands if they decide to go further.

A little bit of anecdote to take with grain of salt: I have a friend who only started PF'ing into Savage contents back in 6.05 as a WHM. They loved being a healer because they feel less pressured to dps, which is fine to some degree. I mean who cares so long they still contribute adequately for a clear, right? Then 6.2 Abyssos dropped. Bam! They reluctantly switched around DPSes beyond 2nd week prog/reclear because apparently the tank damage is 'too high' & it made them uncomfortable (they admitted letting tanks die more than usual). Interestingly, they also cited about seeing DPSes slots filling up way more frequently than healers which coincide with some other stories I heard about declining healers participation in PF.
The bleedbusters are a blessing imho.
We had all these fancy skills like ED, Exaltation, CI, Benison, Tetra, Veil, Protraction, Krasis, Haima, Aetherpact... but nobody needed them.

A friend of mine and I played a minigame of "dot uptime" when we both tanked on Hippo by constantly running into the water and trying to keep the Dropsy dot up as much as we could. It was a learning and intro event for people that didn't have any raid experience yet, mind you. Including the two healers. They didn't need to heal us at all. We were entirely fine with our selfheal while deliberately eating as much extra damage as we could.

Now healers finally have a good use for their single target heals. The only time I really used them was on bird add phase and when T/H got tethers on p4s part 1 to save aoe resources. Benison on each healer before the hit and more Rapture for Pinax, towers, orbs etc.
That's it. For an entire tier. At min ilvl no less.


And I find the reactions to the current raid tier quite amusing.
I've heard plenty of times how bleedbusters are a nightmare, how Tree is hell, how Carby's damage should be nerfed and so on. And when I hop into PF to help friends or get reclears on my alt, we frequently wipe to unavoidable back-to-back damage because on top of mitigation being bad in PF, many healers just don't heal in time and have no clue about when they press which button. It's rare to see a healer that at least has a general idea of when they use their big 2min/ 3min cooldown and do it somewhat consistently.
Quite recent example of this: my last Carby reclear party kept wiping to unavoidable damage and when I asked the WHM if he has a specific time for Lilybell, he first asked me which skill I mean. I used auto translate. Asked again, which skill that is supposed to be, told me to wait while he looks through his spellbook. Found it. Said "No idea. I just use something when I see a low HP bar". And that Temperance doesn't feel like it makes any difference so he doesn't use it. While we were getting one-shot through Kera + shields.