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(08-16-2016, 09:33 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:Technically speaking, if the monster dies faster, it does less damage to the party, and therefore there is less effective healing needed? Granted, this also applies to the tank. I often joke that my tanking style is "if I kill it fast, nobody takes damage and therefore I tanked it for them."(08-16-2016, 09:16 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: On the contrary, I believe defensive cooldowns are as essential to the tank's role as dps is to a healer's role. But also that either role can choose not to do these things and get away with it because another role will cover for them. A healer will cover for a tank not using cooldowns. The damage dealers will cover for a healer not using dps.
In short, my opinion is that if the game gives your class an ability (or nearly a dozen of them) it's probably part of your role to use them, even if it's not your primary function in a party. A tank's primary function is to hold enmity, it's secondary function is to help the healer keep it alive.
Tanking CDs are part of what Tanks need in order to tank. Â DPS spells are not, in any way, part of what Healers need in order to heal*.
We simply have entirely different viewpoints on what a tank's role is (the idea that tanking CDs are not needed to tank properly is just...it's ludicrous) and is not, so there's not much point in even continuing the conversation.
* Unless, of course, you're playing a Chloromancer, Defiler, or Disc Priest, in which case, DPS spells are a core part of how you heal, and are thus completely necessary in order to heal as they are the entire point of your class/spec and you literally lack true direct healing spells that will work in the absence of DPS.
But then again, that's kinda my point. DPS is a shared responsibility in this game, moreso than in other MMO, it seems. I don't know any other way to explain it. Combat roles have more than one purpose.*Shrug*
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