Quote Originally Posted by Phoenicia View Post
In general, 3 enemies is the magic number where you want to use your Aoe instead of single target as it is more damage. Every class follows this rule.
As a healer main, I would encourage tanks and DPS to question this rule.

From a potency point of view, yes, if you're doing 3+ mobs, you will, mathematically, do more damage.

However, as tank, you will also take more damage for longer. This in turn means that the healer has to waste significantly more casts on healing instead of DPS, which in turn reduces the actual mob clear time.

If you're doing 3 mobs, I would focus on single-target, while stunning/binding one mob to reduce incoming damage so the healer can DPS more. Depending on the money type and their HP, you may want to do the same at 4 mobs. I generally start looking at AoR by default past 5. But really, if you have a poor or new tank/healer, do single groups of mobs and single-target everything. If you have experienced players, just do max pull size. There are likely not going to be too many situations where you go in half measures.