Why you should play a healer!

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It also doesn't refute my point either. All content has a min group wide DPS requirement to meet in order to clear the content.

Consider that a) we don't hit the ground running with capped gear in a new progression tier and b) strategies can take weeks to get refined and optimised to what you see in a MrHappy video. SE are fairly shrewd in tuning content so that it is dooable out of the gate, but with rather strict requirements compared to further on down the line. So yes, that gap between a flawless run and a wipe to enrage can often be very very narrow initially. As iLvls go up and strategies get optimised it widens rather significantly. My stance on this is no doubt skewed because I put my stock in the early weeks and tough times of progression, that's the time when content matters and I'm enjoying myself the most IMHO. I do appreciate and understand where you're coming from, perhaps it's time you returned the favour?

Why did I bring Gordias into this?

But there has never been a fight where all the DPS had to achieve their perfect theoretical DPS for a given fight in order to complete it, even with problematic raids like Gordias.

.... there has never been a fight where all the DPS had to achieve their perfect theoretical DPS ....

Yeah, uh, hi?

And yeah, when you say so intently healers are a breeze to play

Say what?

Please quote me where I 'so intently' said that.

I still think you're absolutely misunderstanding my point =(

It's as Cyn's saying, a healer's core kit is rather simplistic, notably more so than the rocket science DPS combos and Tank 'phases' in this game. Does that make a healer comparatively effortless to raid with? Absolutely not, healers need a level of spatial awareness and presence of mind that would actually be rather detrimental to a top tier DPS. Not to mention, significant Healer mistakes tend to get punished with a far higher frequency and with much more impactful results than DPS mistakes.

some people will take that as their efforts and overall contributions are not as valued...which is a shitty attitude to bring to a thread aimed at attracting new healers.

Have you seen how often I gush over my co-healer?

This weeks O1S was a solid demonstration of why I rate him as one of the very best SCHs in this game.

Almost everyone else died, several multiple times, half of us wanted to get back to Destiny 2, the other half wanted to get back to Coil or just didn't care, we were down to 2 characters standing. The guy not only kept the run on the rails, he bagged a 96% out of it in the process. Fluke? Feel free to look at his logs. I take huge pride in my capacity to carry rough raids, but I couldn't dream of doing it whilst also contributing the DPS that he does in the process.

I overreact to things going wrong and drop everything to unleash the floodgates of HPS to ride the storm. He consistently manages to react just enough to keep things going without derailing his own numbers in the process.

This is why I'm merely a decent healer whilst he is absolutely world class.

To anyone that might doubt that a healer's value and contribution isn't there I ask: Do you think I keep the company I do because of my DPS?