A summary of healer issues

[Supersnow845]

Ye typical GCD heal always being a DPS loss is true only under a bad accounting scheme.

The question is always: What is better for the party's total DPS, me tossing out a GCD heal or me tossing out another stone? If the answer is "GCD heal", and I toss out a GCD heal, any accounting scheme that fails to credit me with a positive rDPS contribution for that heal is imperfect at best and broken at worst.

That line of thinking just offloads bad decision making to the healer because the DPS can then make the decision “if I intentional fail this mechanic and can still survive then I can get more uptime at the healers expense”

It’s why they changed mechanical failure in savage from a vuln stack to a damage down, because a vuln stack only punished the healers