Contradictions, Double Standards, Counterintuitive Design

[ThorneDynasty]

It's even more dumb than that, since every time there is a self-identifying sylphie and people are actually able to pull up their logs, they are in fact DPSing 80% of the time just like everyone else. So in practice they are the exact same green DPS elitists they rail against. They just don't want the green DPSing to be any kind of fun out of some weird hang up on a "healers should heal" principle, even though they themselves are an example of why it has never been true. Or spamming that 1 button 30 seconds straight doing nothing else is apparently something they've just convinced themselves is fun.

[SenzorialBoundries]

It's even more dumb than that, since every time there is a self-identifying sylphie and people are actually able to pull up their logs, they are in fact DPSing 80% of the time just like everyone else. So in practice they are the exact same green DPS elitists they rail against. They just don't want the green DPSing to be any kind of fun out of some weird hang up on a "healers should heal" principle, even though they themselves are an example of why it has never been true. Or spamming that 1 button 30 seconds straight doing nothing else is apparently something they've just convinced themselves is fun.

"Healers should heal" has been true to some extent in ARR coils and extremes until they started to add the ridiculous echo buff stripping any semblence of difficulty.

[Teno]

"Healers should heal" has been true to some extent in ARR coils and extremes until they started to add the ridiculous echo buff stripping any semblence of difficulty.

Even in ARR and coils healers were first and foremost green dps (even more true for scholar). It's just that the lack of oGCDs and mitigation tools meant that you sometimes cast GCDs, especially when new on a fight.

[Sebazy]

Even in ARR and coils healers were first and foremost green dps (even more true for scholar). It's just that the lack of oGCDs and mitigation tools meant that you sometimes cast GCDs, especially when new on a fight.

In fairness, that kind of depends on the content.

Dungeons? Absolutely, in 2.0 I actually used to make double WHM parties for the fastest WP grind before we figured out the whole locking mobs out of the boss area with the barrier thing.

Savage and Trials? Not so much, not because we didn't have opportunities to DPS, high tier healers would generally be maintaining dots where possible, but because resources were much scarcer than they are now, and that includes GCDs themselves. Tanks could potentially get wiped out in the span of a couple of GCDs with bad crit luck, MP evaporated if you started spamming much of anything and falling behind was risky because we just didn't have the same kind of ability to catch back up like we do now.

You used to see a lot of standing around canceling casts and hard MP conservation in harder content.

[Teno]

In fairness, that kind of depends on the content.

Dungeons? Absolutely, in 2.0 I actually used to make double WHM parties for the fastest WP grind before we figured out the whole locking mobs out of the boss area with the barrier thing.

Savage and Trials? Not so much, not because we didn't have opportunities to DPS, high tier healers would generally be maintaining dots where possible, but because resources were much scarcer than they are now, and that includes GCDs themselves. Tanks could potentially get wiped out in the span of a couple of GCDs with bad crit luck, MP evaporated if you started spamming much of anything and falling behind was risky because we just didn't have the same kind of ability to catch back up like we do now.

You used to see a lot of standing around canceling casts and hard MP conservation in harder content.

Don't say all that, all these little nuances make me miss it even more now.