WHM should be hitting as hard as SGE, why isn't it?

[CaptainLagbeard]

WHM should not be hitting as hard as SGE.

All Healers should be hitting as hard as Tanks at a minimum.

[Alice_Rivers]

All Healers should be hitting as hard as Tanks at a minimum.

So every healer needs a damage buff?

[CaptainLagbeard]

So every healer needs a damage buff?

Absolutely.

[Alice_Rivers]

Sweet, that would kill SMN though.

[IDontPetLalas]

Sweet, that would kill SMN though.

That makes as much sense as saying that tanks having more than one damage skill put melee DPS out of their jobs.

[Alice_Rivers]

I did some training dummy stuff with WHM and SMN back in EW with like for like ilvls, when comparing the damage numbers for single and multitarget attacks the damage per hit was near enough the same more often than not, with the exception of SMN's really high damage stuff the crit and direct crit hits went in favour of WHM.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I did some training dummy stuff with WHM and SMN back in EW with like for like ilvls, when comparing the damage numbers for single and multitarget attacks the damage per hit was near enough the same more often than not, with the exception of SMN's really high damage stuff the crit and direct crit hits went in favour of WHM.

According to some funny divining website that should not be named, average SMN has always been pulling about 50% more than an average WHM in both rDPS and aDPS department. They are nowhere 'close', not in the slightest.

[TheDustyOne]

I did some training dummy stuff with WHM and SMN back in EW with like for like ilvls, when comparing the damage numbers for single and multitarget attacks the damage per hit was near enough the same more often than not, with the exception of SMN's really high damage stuff the crit and direct crit hits went in favour of WHM.

Sooooo if we ignore the parts of SMNs kit that deals high damage, SMN doesn't deal high damage. But how much damage does it actually do when you DO account for those high damage spells?

When comparing damage, you take the average amount of damage across the entire kit over the course of a rotation, not just a handful of spells. Of course Glare is gonna do similar to Ruin III, but it's going to get outdamaged significantly by the summons and demi-summons as well as the oGCDs.

[miraidensetsu]

SMN should be hitting as hard as PCT.

[Supersnow845]

SMN should be hitting as hard as PCT.

PCT is an actual class, SMN is a healer without heals