A summary of healer issues

[Azurarok]

Throwing this in here since this seems to be the most relevant topic.

A while back I tried doing a loop of Eukrasian Diagnosis -> Dosis/Dyskrasia until the barrier's broken -> Toxicon in a lv90 dungeon run and it was one of the most fun runs of healing a dungeon I've done. It felt like I was doing a combo befit a healer, but I never did it again since it's far worse than just spamming Dyskrasia while weaving addersgall heals.

So then I've been thinking, why are GCD heals (that aren't lilies, and even that's relatively recent) designed to be a dps loss? I know if a party member's dead that's a worse drop and all, but it still feels like we're being punished for doing what the role is supposed to do.

[AmiableApkallu]

So then I've been thinking, why are GCD heals (that aren't lilies, and even that's relatively recent) designed to be a dps loss? I know if a party member's dead that's a worse drop and all, but it still feels like we're being punished for doing what the role is supposed to do.

Ye typical GCD heal always being a DPS loss is true only under a bad accounting scheme.

The question is always: What is better for the party's total DPS, me tossing out a GCD heal or me tossing out another stone? If the answer is "GCD heal", and I toss out a GCD heal, any accounting scheme that fails to credit me with a positive rDPS contribution for that heal is imperfect at best and broken at worst.

[Supersnow845]

Ye typical GCD heal always being a DPS loss is true only under a bad accounting scheme.

The question is always: What is better for the party's total DPS, me tossing out a GCD heal or me tossing out another stone? If the answer is "GCD heal", and I toss out a GCD heal, any accounting scheme that fails to credit me with a positive rDPS contribution for that heal is imperfect at best and broken at worst.

That line of thinking just offloads bad decision making to the healer because the DPS can then make the decision “if I intentional fail this mechanic and can still survive then I can get more uptime at the healers expense”

It’s why they changed mechanical failure in savage from a vuln stack to a damage down, because a vuln stack only punished the healers

[vetch]

That line of thinking just offloads bad decision making to the healer because the DPS can then make the decision “if I intentional fail this mechanic and can still survive then I can get more uptime at the healers expense”

It’s why they changed mechanical failure in savage from a vuln stack to a damage down, because a vuln stack only punished the healers

It also closes off any avenue for coordination if I should happen to have unused free heals and be willing to spend them so the DPS can soak for more uptime.

Instead the only solution left is 'do what the designers intended you to do at all times', which is terminally boring.