Quote Originally Posted by Side-Eye View Post
Oh. And if the healer is too occupied with his/her own DPS to rez an actual DPS, I'll step in. (And may or may not mention it after the fight, that in almost every situation, a live DPS class would contribute more damage than a healer. Ahem.)
That really depends. Let's say Swift has 12 sec on cd, no healing is needed from me (otherwise hardcast Rez is a bad idea anyway). I push out 5 Glares, swift Rez and continue. My other option is hardcast for 8 sec (both I and the dps are doing 0 for the duration) then both I and the weakness debuffed dps have 4 sec dealing damage. That 8 sec of combined damage is equal or worse than my 12 sec (esp with the dps weakened). From 15 sec cd left onwards, there's a good case for eating the Hardcast (healing required dependent), unless the dps is terrible or has a high weakness debuff, which is a decision you make in the moment.

Also to mention something on heal lb3 here, because I've been told off by inexperienced players too many times for using it. If the fight isn't going to end soon, lb3 for 3 reasonably decent dps is almost always a net gain over melee lb3, because you save 24 sec of healer hardcast (not only does this significantly hurt the healers damage and healing, but it means the dps aren't up immediately and wait for 8-24 sec) and gain 3 weakness debuffs (if hard raised they'd be at 75% power, this is sort of like giving them a +33% main stat buff for 100 sec on that). Heal lb3 is an amazing tool.