Comments on: Go on, give your DPS crew a hug today!

By: Kolan

Kolan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:31:31 +0000

Interesting post. I guess it all depends on the raid boss you are doing. We find these days that for progression we will generally stack and extra healer above dps as more often the fights take longer as you learn them. However as we get more experience we will drop healers in favour of more dps. There is no doubt that at the lower level raids dps can have a pretty easy time of it. However try being responsible for the adds and cores in the Vashj fight and you will find that it can get pretty stressful for the dps as well.

Cheers

Kolan

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By: Dechion

Dechion — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:06:56 +0000

Na, I jest. I play a healer and a dps, neither seem to appreciate the other.

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By: Joel’s Scattered Thoughts » Blog Archive » Are healers responsible and dps just having fun?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:43:24 +0000

[...] Are healers responsible and dps just having fun? The followup comments are great – be sure to read Saresa and Gevlon’s posts on the subject. Ulv’s ranking of the different roles on different [...]

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By: Hanhar

Hanhar — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:42:21 +0000

I am a tank, Normaly I am the lead of the group. And any good group is balanced. Try going with out dps, big no no. My wife plays a lock. and tanks love there lock, so long as they are thier locks LOL. but you are right DPS and even CC don’t get the prop’s the deserve. I will remember that. and damn you put a good point out there and still have a tad of funny in it.

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By: Cynra

Cynra — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:18:51 +0000

I’ve played both the DPS and healing roles, though I invariably prefer healing because of how much more involved I think I am in a raid. Multiple targets, multiple spells, and I feel like I am more involved in a fight.

However, DPSers are pretty damned important. Back in the day before enrage timers were introduced, you typically had a raid of forty people, but around ten to fifteen of them could walk away and AFK auto-attack/shoot and come back to down the boss. As long as you continuously applied damage and kept people alive, it didn’t really matter how much damage you were doing per second.

Enrage timers changed all this. Suddenly, every DPSer became important in a raid when an enrage timer could cause you to lose. This is why we see raids that maintain minimal DPS requirements when going up against different bosses or being so meticulous in maximizing the amount of damage that can be done by each class with raid/group composition.

Having played a number of DPS classes and healing classes in a raid, I feel that I have a more difficult role as a healing priestess that lacks Circle of Healing. I focus on twenty-five targets as opposed to one, I don’t have a rotation to fall back on and instead need to rely on judgment to select the right spell to use, I need to maximize my efficiency by doing this otherwise I run out of mana and people die, and I honestly believe that I think more. However, healing is more intuitive to me and I still respect the DPS classes for doing what they do.

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By: Mae

Mae — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:07:12 +0000

We have a resto druid who tells me that dps is hard every time she goes boomkin or plays her shammy. I sorta giggle at that a little, personally I think healing is harder than DPS. However, I agree with you whole heartedly, I think people don’t give DPS enough credit. We’re essential, and it takes work to be good. Everytime I hear someone suggested Healers & Tanks > DPS for loot drops, I tell them to see if they can down those bosses WITHOUT the dps and see what happens. lol. That usually shuts up the conversation. ~.^

I have a 70 lock, but she’s terrible, so I’m not sure what it’s like for a lock, but I imagine it’s much the same as for a mage. Enjoyed the read very much!! Also, thanks for stopping into my blog, it’s always nice to see a new face.

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By: Larísa

Larísa — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:24:58 +0000

Oh I loved this rant! I didn’t want to QQ but be kind if balanced in my own post, but yours is so much more direct. Thanks for saying this. Its about time someone speaks out of this perspective. And how quickly you put it together! I’m impressed.

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