Please forgive any minor grammar or spelling/wordswap issues. I’m on my iPhone (fucking autocorrect) and this will be long. I don’t feel like proof reading.
Attempt at honest discussion incomming …
I do find it funny that DSM places such a high value on redundant heals/utility for the sake of safety. Bear with me but let’s play along a shall we?
-Imagine you have a static camp of 27 mobs each with 8000hp.
-Mob respawn time is 27minutes
-camp isn’t hard. Mobs are loosely arranged. Some are single pulls/engages. Some come in 2s. Rare spot there are 3-4 you might have to deal with (cc/lull/FD split)
Without counting the actual mobs down there this is more or less crypt/emp. Unfortunately this caster group by definition cannot have a rog so once you’re down there you can’t do emp but can face pull some stuff through the emp door.
But for the sake of argument. There are 27 mobs.
100dps = 80 second kill time
200dps = 40 second kill time
300dps = 26 second kill time
400dps = 20 second kill time
Hang with me here. We are about to ruminate our head-walnuts and approach this not as concrete thinkers. We are going to engage in that thing DSM is incapable of abstract thought.
Concrete absolutes:
@100 dps (80 second kills): with zero down time to move or pull this group will kill at most 20 mobs per repop cycle. Factoring that you WILL have to move, pull, or whatever else you’re looking at realistically 17-18 kills due to time lost.
@200 dps (40 second kills): with zero down time you can kill all in 18 minutes! Knowing there will be down time and mobility moving around etc you’re probably looking more at all kills in 22ish minutes. This leaves you 5 mins of time between cycles/repops. If there is a named who is more resistant or has more hps or dps time was lost doing CC maybe add a minute or 2-3. Still even then you are done but now have 2-3 minutes of down time for repops.
@300 dps (26 second kills): with zero downtime you can kill it all in 11.7 minute. This leaves 15.3 minutes of down time. Knowing that you have to move around … let’s drop that to 11.3 minutes of down time. With naked or unexpected stuff? Take a way a few more minutes and let’s just say a solid 8-9 mins down time.
@400 dps (20 second kills): with zero down time all dead in 9. 18 minutes down time … wait no make that 14 for movement or maybe 12 for other stuff mentioned above.
OK GUYS CONCRETE BS IS DONE — let’s think abstractly.
Down time: it is good for the heart, soul, allows you to take a piss or look at some tantalizing pictures on the intrawebs of that’s what your heart desires. It gives you a moment to breathe, med up, refresh buffs. It allows you to make a sammich or grab another beer. It allows classes like mages to be freshly full mana with each cycle so they don’t have to get stingy on the nukes.
“Safety”: the shorter a fight, the less time for the fight to go wrong. If you drop your kill time from 80 sec to 40 sec to 26 sec to 20 sec … that’s a whole hell of a lot less time for the emergency situation to actually develop. If it does develop you exponentially reduce chance of catastrophe as the encounter is over so much faster. By killing faster; far less reason to even need that slow, extra root or heal. If mobs die faster less cleric mana use per mob - mana saved.
DPS doesn’t have a break point. Anyone capable of abstract thought can understand this. Even in a situation where you are limited by mobs (no more to pull) there is significant benefit in just getting things dead faster. More time to take care of basic bodily functions or just rest the eyes. It also markedly reduces risk because thing die so much faster … it’s why you never needed the extra heals, cc, or “utility” of the shaman.
What if the group is crawling around though? A place like seb is a veritable all you can eat buffet. If you want to move around the 400dps group will be getting literally twice as much xp loot compared to 200. 300 getting 50% more.
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