Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
You're a generally good faith person, so I suspect this was unintentional, Sebazy, but:

Goal post move.

My point was that DoTs are not the vehicle to use to improve casual player performance. Misery is a far better tool. If your goal was to devalue lost GCD Glares, upping Misery would be the solution there, since casual WHM's love the heck out of that thing and don't tend to skimp on using it.
At the risk of being brutally honest here....

Perhaps you don't realise you're doing it, but it feels like you come up with a theory and nothing will change your mind over it. You'll willingly die on that hill even when people come back at you with cold hard data that goes entirely against your narrative.

Case in point, I went to Kokytos normal, all reports, all kills, WHM only, clicked the first link and lo and behold.....

If you don't want to click through, that's 97% uptime on Dia and 1 Misery cast in a 6:30 clear. The other WHM had 81% on dia and 3 Miserys.

Here's another more mid to high tier log.... 78% run, 95% on Dia, 5 Miserys.

Next in line, 57% run, 84% uptime on Dia, 2 Miserys, 5:54 kill time.

The new log that isn't a 90+ log..., 67% run, 85% uptime on Dia, 3 Miserys, 6:24 kill time.

I can keep on going if you want but hopefully by now the point is made:

No, dots are not exclusively the biggest factor casuals struggle with. It's just cooldown/timed abilities in general, be it getting value from things like Benison, Aquaveil or as demonstrated, even just remembering to blast out those Lilies. Get 5 different casuals with bad logs and you'll likely find 5 different core facets of the gameplay that they struggle with. As the links above demonstrate, suggesting that Misery is somehow significantly easier for casuals to remember is patently false. It's all too easy to panic and overcap, it's easy to use Medica II as a comfort blanket and fail to throw out nearly enough Lilies under the assumption that overhealing with them is bad. As I said before, there is no perfect one size fits all solution. Dots aren't it and neither is Misery. Luckily we have 4 healers and thus SE can try different approaches with each eh? Just giving everyone damage neutral healing GCDs is a risky copout IMO.

As for letting a dot fall off not being a mistake... Goal post move.

Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
A mistake is when you hot a button that's not optimal
Pressing Glare when Dia isn't up is not optimal. By your own definition, it's a mistake.

Seriously though, the game could do a better job of displaying dots for sure, but I've covered that topic to death already.