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    ForteNightshade's Avatar
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    Kurenai Tenshi
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    Paladin Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
    Lets be real for a minute. Your average and even to a point above average players are not going to be doing things like that group that cleared TOP without a healer or even just your average savage fight. Tanks having self healing is absolutely a problem, but healers are not useless in the current meta. Only the extreme of the extreme are pulling stunts like that.
    This is missing the point though. While the overwhelming majority of parties will keep the standard comp, seeing things like this demonstrates just how little value healers contribute relatively their trinity counterparts. Pulling up a random P5S run, I have 175 casts of Glare and 111 casts of every other ability combined. Yes, including Dia and Assize which are damage buttons. 61.1% of my contributions to that clear were spamming a single DPS button. A mere 13.2% of my casts were towards healing, and this is me both playing sub-optimally and counting Assize and Rapture casts as always healing necessary when I can assure you, they weren't. This is a rare run where I used Solace and even Medica II.

    So my contributes as a DPS were nearly five times higher than as a healer. That's the issue people have with the healer design in this game right now, be it from the kits themselves or the encounters. You aren't a healer, you're a gimped damage dealer regardless of the content you do.

    Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
    Because WAR has always been SE's "Golden Child". Whenever they want something, they get it.
    Okay, this may have been true in Heavensward but it stopped being years ago. Warrior has spent the last two expansions as the worst tank in high end content and even been actively locked out in Abyssos. Dark Knight has more than three times its clear rates for both Ultimates, and Dark Knight/Gunbreaker dominated throughout all of Shadowbringers and Endwalker.

    They've had to buff Warrior five separate times this expansion. If that's "Golden Child" status, Dark Knight must be a living legend.
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    Last edited by ForteNightshade; 05-21-2023 at 03:18 AM.