A summary of healer issues

[Shurrikhan]

I...don't think we have the same definition of the word griefing.

Sabotaging, often with the purpose of demeaning or infuriating others. If the tank is purposely preventing others uptime by playing keep-away with the mobs over the whole course of the gather... that description doesn't sound far off.

Yes, losing those 10-20 seconds of Melee/Ranger/SGE/SCH/AST damage on the initial pack by keeping out of their reach over the gather only gets the final pack into place at most a second or two earlier, but there's no one in place to make use of that so only the tank's damage on the final pack is starting any sooner, and less resource has been generated in advance for that full gather. All in all, it's just an annoyance and a way to slow down one's party. Much like pulling a raid boss with Plunge, it's not generally a good idea.

And this kind of comment, btw, is the min-maxy BS that ruins games. "You're losing 70 potency once every AOE pack that might be HALF a GCD slower killing the pack! That's griefing/bad gameplay!!" Really? I...don't think it is.

Are you the tank in that example? I wasn't aware any tank had access to Biolysis and Art of War.

I only pointed out the math behind why adding Bane or the ability to Deploy one's DoTs would not simplify gameplay in the context you claimed it would. The only 'griefing' I pointed out would be tank behaviors that would prevent you from using Art of War.

That's LITERALLY the same thing I said.

The difference is in the context. When you're claiming that Bane would be bad because it could only ever reduce the amount of cast-variety in AoE, that's not a one-time off-the-cuff example within a larger story about how little healing is required; it would have to be the norm/sole possibility among AoE pulls.