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[Eisenhower]

Here. Have a flowchart. I think it will help.

[FoxyAreku]

Not dpsing as a scholar is pretty bad, and there's no reason you should ever just be standing around or waiting as either healer if there's nothing to heal. But if stuff gets cleared it's not a huge issue.

[Riepah]

Not dpsing as a scholar is pretty bad, and there's no reason you should ever just be standing around or waiting as either healer if there's nothing to heal. But if stuff gets cleared it's not a huge issue.

As a SCH, I find DPSing feels like a waste of time. By the time I'm done applying dots, most of the stuff is half dead anyway. When I'm on WHM, spamming Holy seems infinitely more useful - but on SCH, I tend to not bother with DPS and just keep people alive, for the most part. I may DPS on bosses, but not on normal mobs.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

As a SCH, I find DPSing feels like a waste of time. By the time I'm done applying dots, most of the stuff is half dead anyway. When I'm on WHM, spamming Holy seems infinitely more useful - but on SCH, I tend to not bother with DPS and just keep people alive, for the most part. I may DPS on bosses, but not on normal mobs.

sounds like trash content comparison. How about a perspective on endgame where accuracy actually matters?

[Riepah]

sounds like trash content comparison. How about a perspective on endgame where accuracy actually matters?

If you read the OP, they're hardly talking about "endgame where accuracy actually matters".

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

If you read the OP, they're hardly talking about "endgame where accuracy actually matters".

I'm not questioning the OP, though. I'm questioning you

[AskaRay]

As a SCH, I find DPSing feels like a waste of time. By the time I'm done applying dots, most of the stuff is half dead anyway. When I'm on WHM, spamming Holy seems infinitely more useful - but on SCH, I tend to not bother with DPS and just keep people alive, for the most part. I may DPS on bosses, but not on normal mobs.

You must be so bored during the trash then, having Eos just heal for you... bane is seriously a miracle.

honestly I DPS the crap out of trash and tend to hold back (for most of the battle at least) during bosses because I'm so paranoid about everyone dying then.
I mean of course I do some stuff during bosses.

[KisaiTenshi]

DPs when I heal? I'm no where near max level on my whm, but I don't remember dpsing on my sch either when prae first came out. Is that fail?

You are never required to DPS as a healer.

You will however feel bored at times when the party actually knows how to avoid damage. The best point of reference is Castrum Meridianum, as there will be two tanks and two healers, and you may end up with 4 DPS that may downright suck. If you can get through a run without anyone dying, then you can probably find the windows to DPS in. Certain dungeons I'd probably not recommend ever DPS'ing (Aurum Vale for one) because the healing requirements are excessive.

As a SCH, I find DPSing feels like a waste of time. By the time I'm done applying dots, most of the stuff is half dead anyway. When I'm on WHM, spamming Holy seems infinitely more useful - but on SCH, I tend to not bother with DPS and just keep people alive, for the most part. I may DPS on bosses, but not on normal mobs.

I think the opposite is true. DPS'ing feels like a waste of time on healer because an entire switch to Cleric Stance lets you fire off any two DPS attacks or one Holy in that 5 second window before you can switch back. Holy does maybe 600 Damage (900 Crit), while a BLM casting pretty much anything does more damage and they have the same DPS cast speed but Astral Fire winds up making them do 5 times as much damage. As a point of reference, WHM can take Blizzard II from THM, but even with Cleric Stance, it does much weaker damage. In all the dungeons that you can't use Holy, DPS'ing as a healer lets you switch to Cleric stance, apply the DoT's, and then switch back.

There's rarely a situation where the Healer's DPS'ing makes a difference, since you're not contributing 25% of the DPS, you're contributing maybe 3% at most. The only time that it makes any real sense to DPS is when no damage is being taken, and won't be taken for a long enough window. Syrcus Tower has one phase like this during meteorfall. Ultima Weapon has a phase like this (though usually the Limit Break is fired here.)

If youre healing no one is gonna complain, but if party is topped off health wise and you are sitting on full; or close to mp, expect someone to say something.

That has never happened. Likewise, most Bards never use their Song skills, and nobody uses their self-healing skills. It's rather silly to think that the Healer should be contributing to DPS while the rest of the party does nothing to help heal themselves or... avoid taking damage entirely.

If the Healer "has to" DPS, then that is a tactless admission that you think the DPS are not pulling their weight. If a DPS casts Cure/Physick on another player, that's the DPS tactlessly admitting they think the Healer is awful. Similar statements can be made about players casting Stone Skin or Protect that aren't the healer. (Keeping in mind that it's not available to CNJ/WHM before level 34)

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

That has never happened. Likewise, most Bards never use their Song skills, and nobody uses their self-healing skills. It's rather silly to think that the Healer should be contributing to DPS while the rest of the party does nothing to help heal themselves or... avoid taking damage entirely.

If the Healer "has to" DPS, then that is a tactless admission that you think the DPS are not pulling their weight. If a DPS casts Cure/Physick on another player, that's the DPS tactlessly admitting they think the Healer is awful. Similar statements can be made about players casting Stone Skin or Protect that aren't the healer. (Keeping in mind that it's not available to CNJ/WHM before level 34)

So what you're saying is that "because others are playing half assed, you should play half assed". Excellent advice, I think?

Also, the contrary of whatever you claim can be made as well:
Bards never use their song skills -> bards actually do use their songs when needed
Nobody uses self-healing skills -> Warriors use these all the time. Whenever a DPS player uses them they simply go unnoticed or become pure overheal (Bloodbath primarily)
Rest of the party does nothing to help -> There are parties out there who actually do. Even if not the entire party does it as whole, some of them do.
Healer dps never made a difference -> party wipe at <5% because neither healer did any form of damage
Healer dps never made a difference part 2 -> push phases quicker which would save both healers MP. T12 being the prime example
Healer dps never made a difference part 3 -> Even in content like CT, ST and WoD. ST being killing crazy dog lady, Rugby-man and phantom of the opera guy before their final mechanic happens. Effectively saving everyone several minutes, especially on the rugby guy.

Everything you cram out is extremely subjective and one-sided. In the other topic you even acted as if you made this game yourself. 3% damage contribution? 25% of a dps class? Have you even set foot in the other half of the game yet? Of course a healer can only contribute 3% of the total damage in Crystal Tower. That's simply because of the sheer number of people there. Everyone's share gets smaller. Present some facts to support those claims before making them.

[KisaiTenshi]

So what you're saying is that "because others are playing half assed, you should play half assed". Excellent advice, I think?

Don't put words in my mouth. It's not the healers job to take up the slack of half-assed players who only want to be carried through content. The larger the party, the more frequently this happens. You should not be DPS'ing while there are people that need healing.


Case in point. When Alliance A and Alliance B have full HP, and Alliance C nearly wipes out... why is that? We've probably all been there where you get the bum party where nobody is paying attention to anything but themselves.


Let's see:

- Someone complains about dying
- WHM is DPS'ing while there are healable targets in the Alliance
- Bard not Singing, do they have no TP?
- BLM firing Fire III during Umbra Ice , which is more likely a an error on the part of the BLM.

I'm not taking screenshots just to go "oh look at the dumb PUG groups I get stuck with", rather I've been trying to grab screenshots precisely to use against the boneheaded "WHM must DPS" arguments. Both screenshots are from the same WoD run, but different Bosses.

The 3% argument was against a 4-man light party, because the DPS are DPS'ing 100% of the time. Even if you were only healing 50% of the time, if one encounter lasts one minute, and you spend 30 seconds DPS'ing, the DPS's have been DPS'ing for 60 seconds and the Tank's damage counts as DPS. So you have 240 seconds to consider, of which you provide 30 seconds of DPS time, at most that is 12%. Nobody gets that much time. You get 5 seconds, that is closer to 2%. The longer it takes to defeat something, the less relevant your damage is. So unless you can wipe everything out in one hit, your time is better spent healing.