The trinity, party responsibility, and how to try and improve the game from within

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So you would be completely fine with dying so that the healer can artificially inflate his damage numbers over yours? With a system like that in place, the healer can easily gimp it by letting the DD's die at every opportunity to unavoidable damage, which would wind up punishing the DD for something that isn't even their fault while rewarding the healer tor playing poorly.

Good DDs don't actually take that much damage over the course of the run.

Truth is, there's really no way for this to, as you said, "be open for abuse." DDs reach damage totals that healers and tanks are incapable of reaching if they actually try. The issue with dps classes getting beaten by healers and tanks on the parse stems from the DD players not caring enough to try while the healer/tank is pushing the limits of their job