Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
If 10-20% of a healer's dps is negligible, WHY would it be "a suitable reward" for the "effort" put into "maximising the job"?

SPECIFICALLY, when the person having to use that greater "effort" was literally DEMANDING they be forced to expend more effort?

You can't demand more work and then demand to be rewarded for the very thing you demanded to be given. Your reward is the more work, not the more DPS, since more work is what you asked for. Directly.
This is giving very "you asked for more overtime, why are you asking for more money? Your reward was more work" energy right here.

10% of a single healers damage is negligible in regards to an enrage where there's 8 people involved. One healer who messes up their rotation and does 10% less than an optimized healer is very unlikely to be the reason for not making it past enrage. Beating enrage rarely requires optimizing the hell out of your kit, there's a lot of leeway between clearing and optimizing. 10% of a healers DPS is about 500 DPS, 10% of a DPS' DPS is well over 1000 DPS.

Say DPS' DPS 5 times really fast.

People like feeling rewarded for putting in the effort. It's why Savage has gear as that carrot on a stick, it's why people optimize their job beyond what the game asks of them so they have reason to keep playing long after they've cleared Savage and Ultimate, it's why people go to great lengths to advance their career, it's why people work overtime. If there's no incentive to putting in the effort to use your entire DPS kit, then why bother putting those options on your hotbar?

You asked what makes meaningful gameplay decisions over in the healer forums, well here it is; the consequence of using your DPS kit well is more DPS, the consequence of using your DPS kit poorly is less DPS. It's really that simple, and by saying that the guy using it poorly should have the same outcome as the guy using it well is telling the guy doing well that he was a sucker for putting in effort.

A 10% difference between an average player who can clear extremes and someone who goes to great lengths to optimize is a very fair reward. They don't NEED that extra 10%, but that's their reward for that effort. A 20% difference between someone who plays casually and someone who optimizes is also more than fair because that casual player doesn't typically know or care about optimizing, they just want to clear the content that they queued for. If they were that concerned about their performance, they'd read their tooltips and work out how to play it as well.