DPS Simplification - Just do Ultimates!

[Connor]

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I think you might have accidentally the last paragraph where I noted that the post was ironic (like as a genuine mistake not as a catty sarcastic comment). As in, it wasn’t intended to reflect my actual opinions but (tried to) offered an over exaggerated reflection of the opposite. It was terribly put together and only made sense to me, but other people have elaborated on the issues enough that I’m satisfied they’ve made the point where I couldn’t. As for the profanity honestly I find it strange that it’s even allowed, I guess either GMs haven’t noticed or let it slide because I tried to point out I wasn’t literally telling dps players to ‘fuck off’, just going way too far with trying to make a point.

Whether players themselves are treating ultimates as a ‘remedy’ to job design issues is one thing, but the unfortunate truth is that the developers themselves do. It’s still the only time they’ve ever actually acknowledged the healer issues; by telling them to play ultimates. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for anyone to ask for something to be fun in all content.

Lastly, I feel like saying ‘dps have no issues’ whatsoever with things like spamming 1 and diminished role value is a maybe little dismissive. Isn’t Summoner a prime example of the first, with physical ranged dps perfect examples of the second?
I appreciate the point that healers have it the worst, but I don’t think it’s fair to say that encounter design has no effect on DPS when they’re constantly being given mitigation and healing they don’t really need to use in the majority of content in place of more interesting and developed rotations / abilities / etc. And while it’s true that those abilities may be very valuable in ultimates, that doesn’t really help the fact that there’s so little use for them in general content. Plus, that’s not going into the issue of ranged physical dps existing basically only for a 1% role bonus and buffing during 120-sec window which is its own issue lol