The reasoning is that there is no instant cast damage item in the game without charges. There's no 1 point dps manastone, for obvious reasons. Someone cannot infinitely kite multiple mobs and kill them without expending mana. All dps items have very long cast times because of this. If you have 3 or 4 or whatever mobs in a kite it is called stalling and punishable. You can stall out on non- raid encounter mobs, it is a thing. So, to enforce that without having to do oodles of frapsing and such, they said "do some damage to it and keep it under 100%" If you can do that then you are actively damaging a mob. "dps is active" so to speak, and you are not stalling.
I don't remember how much of that is me inferencing and how much of that was said in the post I remember reading like a year ago when the gm ruled on it. In any case, it's their sandbox, we just play in it. After dealing with all the crap in the raid scene, nothing surprises me. Seafuries is not a hill i'm interested in dying on.
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