Quote:Are you saying healing classes should kill as quickly as dps classes?
The original class design philosophy (and of course finding reference for this is impossible now) of Blizzard was that as far as soloing, they wanted total time in killing things repetitively to be relatively close. Certainly differences due to spec were expected -- if you specced for healing, you'd lose solo ability.
That means that taking into account downtime (more downtime for faster killing) things should be at least close.
They failed. Miserably right now in the case of warlocks and hunters.
Even if the philosophy was met, it still wouldn't help the poor raid healer. If you spec for DPS on nearly any class, you have a pretty solid farming/solo build. For classes that do DPS in raids, they are continually rewarded with better PvP and solo ability. Healers have always been screwed if they spec for raiding, sometimes worse than others. I'm not sure there is a way to fix this.
But hey, it's the price you pay to be a raid healer so everyone else has someone to blame for the wipe <_<
edit: Added "Even if the philosophy was met", without which that paragraph made no sense.