What are the Classes FOR?

[Drasca]

In MC, I think straight damage isn't as important as damage per healing needed and overall damage due to survivability.
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Incorrect. You have the accidental aggro steal, but those are rare for vets. You're either a tank intentionally being damaged, or taking incidental damage while doing playing your role--which can be bandaged in half the encounters. In both cases, taking getting nicked while shaving is part of the job.

You don't see all warrior MC raids, now do you? For the golemagg encounter in particular, there are three tanks, several healer rotations, and the rest of us go straight out damage after our warriors grab aggro because dps classes simply aren't hit with anything lethal.

Survivability means nothing when death is certain if you're hit by the main boss (ok, survived golemagg once or twice, but that's the exception rather than the dozen other times he's stomped me to death), and you're never hit by anything lethal, nothing that'll actually kill you.

Once you're above the threshold of survivability, you'd focus on dps and getting the encounter done faster (and safer on resources).

I learned just how important doing more damage in the golemagg encounter was when one time we wiped at 2-7% and I only did 30-40k damage. F-that. Next round, I swapped equipment around, and 50-70k damage. Over 50% more. That's just the oomph we needed. I'm sure others refined their techniques too, but I felt personal pride and accomplishment for doing the dps needed.