Quote Originally Posted by phantomr23 View Post
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yeah, its not like im simply disagreeing for the sake of it. regardless of if we think its intentional or not, the design behind it- what we actually have- encourages it either way. Not the end of the world, really.

as for your question, the DPS meta didnt even really exist until gordias bent the playerbase over it's knee and gave it a good, raw paddlin'. Even then, it was in it's very baby form. we didnt really see the lengths that we see now until alexander/deltascape. before then, in the good old days of coil and the arr extremes, healer DPS was pretty low in general. i wasnt around back then, so i dont know if it was actually 0, but from what i've watched/heard/read... it's low at best. It was a different time