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[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.