ForsakenRoe - Oh, it wasn't an extreme case as a "this is what they would do". It's proof by example: If the gap ISN'T significant, then people would complain that it's meaningless. For the gap to matter...it has to actually be significant enough to matter. But at that point, it will start being the difference between some groups clearing and wiping, at which case it now can't be said that it won't affect people.

My point is just that it WILL affect people unless it's small enough to be irrelevant, and if it is that small, then people will be mad anyway.

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Again, in your example, people will complain if the difference isn't significant. How do I know this? Look at how often people say the complex rotation needs to do more damage otherwise it wouldn't be fair because they're doing more work. Do you really believe people will be satisfied for doing the extra work if the damage difference is small enough to be trivial?

And the goal isn't to "make it look silly". What I'm doing is looking at two cases (1) where the gap is big enough to be noticeable/relevant vs (2) where the difference is small enough not to be. The reason is to compare the two and project the likely reaction of the playerbase to it - which isn't hard because we've had this in the past and seen the reaction to it then.

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"Good thing you brought up Druids though" - in Cataclysm.

...maybe you missed the in Cataclysm part. Druids in current, to my knowledge, have two flavors, Feral for Mythic and Balance for Raids (I haven't played WoW since Legion, but I try to read up on it in Icy Veins from time to time), with the later seeming to play a lot like FFXIV WHM with an added DoT (that may be AOE, I think Sunfire is AOE now...?)

Note that I did NOT praise THAT design. I praised the Cata/Mists design.

And I've already given you a proposal for a solution. Why is it not acceptable to you? That is, can you give me a reason all four healers NEED to be the deep end of the pool? You mention that all four being 0.6m deep is a problem - and I agree with this - it's the very reason I suggested not leaving things as they are. What I don't understand is the compelling reason that ALL the healers need to be 2m deep. Some of us are only 1.5m tall. Some people are only 0.6m tall. What about those people?