All DPS clears highlight a problem with encounter design in ShB

[AdamFyi]

When players talk about increasing healing requirements, it specifically talks about raising the bar from wherever the standard is currently set for any particular encounter. It's not going to be same in all content.

This is an inherent problem when it comes to Healing in general. Increasing healing requirements does not serve to fix the problem with the lack of incoming damage. Pushing damage intensity too far up just forces Healers to play almost perfectly to function at the minimum item level, which is almost impossible for the average player. Similarly, pushing for more frequency on the incoming damage too far does the same thing.

Always consider how it would impact the encounter and player resources. If we push for less downtime between incoming damage, then it punishes heavily for any mistakes made i.e. raised with no MP and 25% weakness, or any KO’s in general with the heavy cost on Raise spells. Granted, stacking as much Piety as humanely possible and dumping them as you get better gear may possibly end up being the trend (hmm..). It isn’t going to fix the Healers—they’re just not designed to be able to accommodate high frequency & high intensity sustained healing for an extended period of time.

[ItMe]

Hahahah wow...
Looks like they had to add a cutscenes there just so the healers MP and cooldowns could recover

[QooEr]

Pushing damage intensity too far up just forces Healers to play almost perfectly to function at the minimum item level, which is almost impossible for the average player. Similarly, pushing for more frequency on the incoming damage too far does the same thing.

nobody is asking for normal content to be dealt like this. people usually ask for higher healing requirements in high end content, where dps ALREADY have to play almost perfectly at minimum item level to clear.

besides its not black and white, its a spectrum and we're leaning way too much over one end.

as for the resources, i get what youre saying, but when people make gearsets around the idea that they wont be casting more than 1 gcd heal per minute because they seriously dont expect to do more than that its telling. imagine if piety was a stat worth caring about

[Absurdity]

nobody is asking for normal content to be dealt like this. people usually ask for higher healing requirements in high end content, where dps ALREADY have to play almost perfectly at minimum item level to clear.

If the goal is to make playing a healer more engaging then only increasing the healing requirement in high end content would be rather pointless. As much as I enjoy doing savage I still spend most of my time doing "normal" content and I'm sure I'm not the only one, so this would still leave me bored out of my mind in 90% of the game.

[ForteNightshade]

If the goal is to make playing a healer more engaging then only increasing the healing requirement in high end content would be rather pointless. As much as I enjoy doing savage I still spend most of my time doing "normal" content and I'm sure I'm not the only one, so this would still leave me bored out of my mind in 90% of the game.

I'm in a similar boat. I enjoy doing "normal" content yet the sheer amount of Glare casts I can get away with is comical. I'm not a healing 90% of the time, I'm a gimped DPS with a single button. This is a big reason you're seeing more and more complaints from non-Savage raiders. They're even more bored since they aren't interested in raid content.