Is anyone in this thread is even reading the linked posts, let alone anything in the thread.


http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/125...-Event-5-19%29
So you expect it to go up overall?

Yoshida: Yes. Since all DPS jobs will be increasing up through level 60, it makes sense to have the white mage's DPS extend by a proportional amount as well. For development, such as with Bahamut's Coils, the development team assumes what the item level should be for general equipment on players when they clear a raid. They sum up the basic DPS for four DPS and tanks at that assumed item level and cut that by about 10-15% for the minimum clear DPS. Healer DPS is not taken into account when this is set.

Certainly for people who are at world's first level, their goal is to clear it at as low an item level as possible, lower than the one assumed during development. So if you look at the fight and figure out that if it's not numerically possible to clear with four DPS and tanks, you'll need to make up the gap with DPS from healers. Then when those publish clear videos and other people see the healers DPSing, they might think that healers need to be DPSing even though its a situation that only arose because their clear would have otherwise been impossible. While we could take this into account, and assume a different item level in the next update which would then make it impossible to clear even with the healer DPS, we'd eliminate this type of play for highly skilled players who use communication, items, and a high level of understanding to come up with those last second clears. That would be a tough decision to make, so I still think it should be up to each party's own plans.

This is also one of the reasons we decided to implement both a normal and savage version of Alexander. Once again, healer DPS was not included in the development team's calculation as it was for other jobs, so you should just think of healer DPS as a last way to get your overall party's DPS up to where it needs to be.

――それほどは全体で見るとそれほど伸びてないと？

吉田氏：　そうですね。レベル60で全ジョブとも今まで以上にDPSが上がっているので、白魔道士も見合った分だけ伸びるという意味なだけです。もともと開発チームでは、大迷宮バハムートなど、レイド攻略の際には一般の腕のプレーヤーがクリアできるであろうアイテムレベルを想定しています。その想定アイテムレベルに到達した4DPSとタンクの基礎DPSを合算して、さらに10％から15％のしきい値を下げてクリア想定を作っています。ヒーラーのDPSは計算に入れていません。

　ただ、確かに世界トップレベルの人たちは、最速攻略争いをするので、開発が想定したアイテムレベルよりも、低いアイテムレベルでクリアを目指します。そうなると、4DSPとタンクの基礎DPSだけでは数値的にクリアできなくなり、結果、出せるDPSがあるなら、少しでも多くDPSを、ということで彼らはヒーラーのDPSも計算して攻略しようとします。それらのクリア動画が出ると、ヒーラーもDPSを出しているため、「ヒーラーもDPSを！」と思われがちですが、それは「無理をしてクリアしようとしている」から発生しているシチュエーションです。これを完全に数値で足切りして、想定アイテムレベル以下ではクリアできないように作ることも可能なのですが、それではプレーヤースキルの高い人たちに、工夫して全員の意思疎通やアイテム理解度を上げ、ギリギリのギリギリを付いてクリアする、という遊びを無くしてしまうことになります。難しい判断ではありますが、やはり固定パーティーの方針次第かなと思っています。

　このことは今回機工城アレキサンダーがノーマルとハードの2つを実装することになった理由の一因でもあります。繰り返しになりますが、開発チームはレイドの攻略にヒーラーのDPSを含めていませんので、今回のレベルキャップ開放でも他のジョブと比べて、ヒーラーとしての上昇分を足しただけと思って欲しいです。
So:
1. Yoshida says that they do not design the dungeons with the healers DPS in mind during development and DPS set 10-15% below expected gear.
2. Yoshida says that people who post videos "first clears" clearing the dungeon, use their healers to make up for shortfall in DPS
3. Yoshida says that this gives players the mistaken impression that Healers are required to DPS to complete the dungeon when the "Clear" videos using healers to DPS used the healers to make up for shortfalls in DPS.


I don't know of anyone actually bragging that they cleared FCoB with ilevel 90 gear when the previous dungeon gave ilevel 110 gear.

The minimum ilevel only ensures that you don't get parties that would never be able to complete the dungeon, no matter what the party and gear configuration is. Things like the Enrage timer insure that you can't just enter with the minimum ilevel and take your time. It also prevents being players from just being carried by without raising the gear requirements of everyone else in the party. A full party of minimum ilevel never happens in practice. If they raised the entry requirements to that of the previous dungeons gear, then it would actually require increasing the difficulty further.

There are however people who enter WoD, at ilevel 90 with the sole purpose of trying to get the i120 gear, skipping buying tomes gear or even doing ST for any gear. There are also bad players who enter WoD wearing crafting gear.