Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
DH. Direct Hit Rate. The stat healers and tanks lack. Why are healers melding for a stat that starts off as low as it does and ultimately making it harder for themselves to keep a group running through basic mechanics? There's no practical reason melding this, even in harder content. Bumping determination means heals and nukes are stronger and you ultimately get to heal for more with fewer casts and DPS til your heart's content.
Did you actually research how miniscule the heal gain from Det over DH hit is?
It's low enough that it doesn't even warrant melding Det over DH in the most difficult endgame content or first week. The difference between full DH and full Det meld is in the range of single digit %. If you die to an aoe in casual content that is designed to put as little pressure on healers as possible, it has absolutely nothing to do with melds. Nothing.
And there is a very practical reason to meld DH over Det: more healer dps. 4% more heal will never make the difference between having to heal twice vs just once. Det and DH are close than ever in terms of dps gain but DH is still slightly ahead and the additional heal from Det is pitiful.

All it means is that this person made a mistake and didn't use enough oGCD to heal the damage.
People make mistakes. If I would go to the forum and complain everytime someone made a mistake that cost me a little bit of time in a dungeon of all things, then I'd have to demand that dps only have a single button that does high single target damage with falloff so it's also their aoe button, tanks wouldn't have stances and only a 1-2 combo and nothing else so they can "focus on mitigation", any form of support from dps would automatically apply.
Someone made a mistake and you died.
So what?
This happened countless times to every single person here for various reasons: tank not having stance, tank not using mitigation, tank not using aoe, dps not using aoe, dps standing in the bad, dps standing in Narnia, dps with ress not ressing, co heal not healing, co heal not ressing ...
You had one bad experience. As far as arguments against healers melding DH or dpsing in general go, that's pitiful. And I have yet to see a good argument against either.