DPS frustration

[Miste]

Totally agree with you and this is a good point. Imo this also depends on what level you want to play those classes. For example, healing is easy to get into, but if you want to work with your co-healer together and make an "fifth dps" worth of dmg together, then it gets difficult. To be honest, optimising is hard for every class, but imo it is just a bit harder for healers to do, since we have to not only rely on our co-healer, but the group in general to mitigate dmg when we ask them to and plan out most if not all of the fights. Other roles plan out stuff aswell, but imo it is a bit less relient on the whole group.

Yeah, I can understand your opinion on that.

The average player skill in this game I think is quite good though usually. Most people play quite decently so it -usually- isn't a too much harder for healers to at least attempt to optimize, but it does happen sometimes that playing healer ends up harder due to other players making mistakes or playing very sub-optimal.

Other roles also can be a bit harder to optimize too though depending on the group. DPS rely on tanks to position mobs and bosses properly and also depend on healers to heal them through damage or mistakes. Tanks also rely on healers to heal them properly and rely on DPS to use aggro deduction when needed so that it is safe for the tank to DPS some without worrying about losing hate.

Most players are quite good at the game though usually at least at max level. Understandably lower levels the skill level is more skewed since people are more new to the game or roles.

In general making a "fifth dps" worth of damage between two healers isn't something most people expect in normal content. In savage though...I mean it is the goal to at least try for, but I can attest it isn't easy to do and I wouldn't expect every healer duo to be able to do it even in savage. Sometimes you just have to just do whatever DPS you can contribute and try not to overdo it if you notice people get a bit too close to dying.


Also yeah Mya is wrong about 2.4-2.7 being "average" healer DPS. That is definitely above average, while top tier 3k+ is extremely above average.