Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
Yet again I see this take. I get it, there's people skilled enough to know how to managed everyone's HP making the job very trivial, but 30 seconds of straight dps with no healing in between? like please elaborate on the situations where thats even possible. It sure aint during mobs pulls where wall to wall requires pumping out them heals to that tank unless they're a warrior. I can maybe see this during boss fights or trials where you have more down time to dps and the fact that you have a co-healer alleviates much of the responsibility.

Basically what Im getting at is that Ive been running a bunch of group content. A lot of it while I was leveling up my healing jobs and no where was I so brain-dead enough where I didnt wind up using my toolkit and just spamming my one button. This is the take that completely baffles me because I just dont see it. I can only believe this for like Savage raids as Ive ran with my static who definitely proves the whole less heal more dps statement but I still feel like this is not something that happens consistently if were just generalizing.
Yes, even if it's a PLD, a GNB, or a DRK. I've done this for all tanks as a Sage, SCH, and AST and in wall to wall pulls. (WHM is suffering in this expansion, but you can pretty much do the same with a a couple more GCD heals since their gimmick is about GCD healing). You can pretty much talk to any healer main in the healer forums. The key point is to take advantage of your cooldowns and weave them in between without immediately panicking because damage is highly scripted. It's the same thing as cycling your healing abilities like a tank does, except you have ridiculously more abilities than a tank for the cases where a player 'may' make a mistake. If it's on a WAR, it just means I press nothing except maybe Physis II and Kerachole (and that's overkill with their equilibrium healing a ton when their Bloodwhetting is down). If it's a PLD, GNB, or DRK, it means I just add Haima in addition to Krasis, Physis II, and Kerachole. If they're extremely bad, then I use my remaining toolkit (Holos, Panhaima, Soteria) in addition to my addersgall. And this is where I can have an entire fight without a GCD spent on healing. That's basically 100% DPS uptime. Players have to mess up considerably for me to even consider dipping into my GCD healing because of how overtuned healing is when you take into account of tank mitigation & healing in general.

I had more of a struggle in Aurum Vale because of the ILVL and limited healing skills than any dungeons above ARR because we have so much access to healing abilities as a result of all the expansions only giving us healing tools and nothing else but healing tools.