The hammer's just for show?

[Skullgrin]

There's a Captain Hammer joke in all this somewhere...


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[KimSmartAssian]

My husband plays a bad ass DPS WP.. 'Bournekiller' level 40 and we have played since the original beginning. Ignore the hate mail and the assumptions... I also play healer/dps spec for dps WP ... I dont play FOR others...I play for ME and I enjoy the game as we should. To hell with the haters. Play what and how YOU want..at the end of the day its only a game that should provide entertainment... JMHO

-Omiesha-

[Ymirok]

I think I'll just stick to playing an archmage. Feels less toothless.

[KimSmartAssian]

I need to retract my comment I had his characters mixed up...so I stand corrected!

[ajnin420]

I think I'll just stick to playing an archmage. Feels less toothless.

Sigh... more dps ams...

[Diggot]

a melee class that can be tanky enough to stand in the frontline, heal itself and it's group AND deal enough damage to put out useful pressure simply cannot be allowed to exist. of course the class is bollocks - common sense should illuminate this

roll an actual dps and stop pissing around, solo dps healers are the cancer of this game

100% agree. Dps-healers should NEVER stand a chance agasinst a true dps 1v1, doesn't matter if
either class is "group oriented" or not. If you let dps-healers start killing people 1v1, you remove
the point of rolling a dps.

The ONLY points of being a dps-healer is to being able to handle PVE on your own.. NOT PVP.

[HappyHubris]

I mean, other games seem to implement DPS spec healers in a viable way that doesn't crowd out other choices. WAR isn't the first title on the market.

[peterthepan3]

a melee class that can be tanky enough to stand in the frontline, heal itself and it's group AND deal enough damage to put out useful pressure simply cannot be allowed to exist. of course the class is bollocks - common sense should illuminate this

roll an actual dps and stop pissing around, solo dps healers are the cancer of this game

100% agree. Dps-healers should NEVER stand a chance agasinst a true dps 1v1, doesn't matter if
either class is "group oriented" or not. If you let dps-healers start killing people 1v1, you remove
the point of rolling a dps.

The ONLY points of being a dps-healer is to being able to handle PVE on your own.. NOT PVP.

This narrowminded view is something I only ever seem to find with WAR players...

Noone is suggesting that a DPS AM/shaman/WP/DOK/zealot/RP should DPS as high as other DPS - while keeping his healing AND survivability (in fact, anyone who has followed the changes to DOK/WP would see that the complete opposite is what we are striving for), but if you choose to spec an offensive path - regardless of your archetype - then you should be able to play offensively: if you give up the vast majority of your healing and survivability, and still lack a lot of what makes 'real' DPS good (core aoe detaunt, speed increasers, defensive morales, offensive morales), you should at least be able to put out damage that is similar/on-par with DPS classes (I personally would go further and remove even more utility from offensive-spec'd healer archetypes to further cement that discrepancy between DPS and healer, but that's just me).

[ajnin420]

Gotta love the im a pure dps blah blah blah...

[Telen]

Considering dps healing was one of the concepts WAR revolutionised in mmos and pretty much every one has copied since. It should be in game. Its like saying you should remove PQs. Its what WAR was known for adding to the genre.

Problem I see is that healers as dps have to have a certain level of dps not to be useless. WP/DoK handle this better because they dont have all the distance closing tools. Stealth pull pounce etc of what melee dps have. ranged dps doesnt have that difference.