Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
It's situational. Like the current patch trial (both normal and EX): the boss does f***all for like 45 seconds when he's sitting there with his thumb up his butt casting the wind-up spells for his Purgation phase. No mechanics, no autoattacks, nothing. I wouldn't consider healing anyone during that relative eternity of a timegap to be an urgent task. But Barbie's tornadoes? Those would easily clip someone not paying attention, leaving someone at half HP during those is a bad idea in goober-finder.
The worst part is that this is also frequent enough in Savage as well.
Little Miss Tapeworm does a lot of... yep, nothing for over a minute between 2:21 and 3:44 and again between 9:03 and 10:07. And has a lot of 30s+ gaps between damage happening. Just a few auto attacks but always casting this or that so even they are few.
What are you even supposed to heal there?
Or Tree savage has decent enough damage going out but after Purgation you have this hilarious 1:08 gap. Because healers have to do thinky things and move for a mechanic, that's so exhausting that we need to give them a 1min+ break. I wonder what would happen if SE locked dps kits to 12 combos for 1min+ after they had to play their burst during a mechanic.

I wish we had more trials like Barbie Ex, that one was the most fun in ages for me on healer. Not only was the fight itself relatively fast-paced because there was always something happening, it also had frequent damage and plenty of opportunities for people to eat extra and cause a bit of chaos.