Tallen
Fledgling Freddie
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In T1 my dps/self healing was very good. Could easily take on any class 1v1 and certain classes 1v2.
In T2 I found I was able to sustain moderate dps while still keeping the healing up. However my dps and healing stayed about equal. This I found was mainly due to self healing. Though I could help out the RP's and AM's with a bit of back up healing. I wasn't really benefiting the grp very much. 1v1 became harder. I put this down to the fact that other classes had now began to increase their own damage and mitigate mine much better. Towards the end of T2 I found myself being more useful in a full healing roll. Enemy players tended to leave me alone and go for the RP's and AM's because they were considered the easier target. Being able to keep the squishies alive while dps'in the one trying to kill them as well as keeping my grp shielded, HoT'd and burst healed when needed felt a more natural roll for my WP.
Now in T3 I pretty much dropped the whole front line dps and focused on grp healing. There's not always an AM or RP in my grp during a scenario and those times especially I focus on full healing. After all, who will keep the group up if I'm at the front line bashing away trying desperately to keep myself in the game?
I've seen many WP's up front. Playing the part of a mid level dps'er. Mid level healer. But they don't excel at either. The WP's dps falls drasticlly short of any main dps'er and in that particular roll it falls well short of any other healer. So I leave the dps to classes that do it better. Although I do dps when it's needed as I mentioned in my previous post. But a WP can excel well in a full healing roll.
If you go front-line then yes, it's too hectic to be effective. But if you hang back and whack anything that attacks the support you can be a far far better healer as you lose no healing potential, you gain through the melee-related healing and you don't have to stop to regen your healing bar.
I'm not talking about DPS as such and using the term was somewhat misleading, what i mean is more intelligent situational melee.
Still, no-one can argue with your stats, so as that works for you, keep it up. However, theres only 2 healers in that list and the RP's stats are not great for a lvl 28 also order has a far better mix of classes (not a single destro tank and only 1 marauder vs 2 IB's and 2 SM's and only 1 sorc v 3 BW's makes that easy-mode im afraid) and you had more high levels than destro, so it's a bit skewed. As a level 23 RP i would be embarrassed to come out of a T3 scenario with under 50-60k, 100k+ is not uncommon (my best so far is 146k) and im guessing at 31 i'd be pushing around 200-250k per scenario.