First Impressions

[Jarulf]

Strangely enough it is most effective to kill the Healing things first.  They can often heal more per unit time than can be dealt by damage dealers of equal numbers.  Therefore it is necessary to kill the healers first. 

I don't buy this. What you want to do is (theoretically) see how much damage you need to dish out to kill all the enemies and at the same time see how much damage you will take during that time. The ammount you do, is basically fixed. It is the ammount of HP for each monster, plus the ammopunt the healing monster heal while you are attacking it (taking its HP down). The ammount of damage you take, is the ammount of damage each of the enemies dish out, times the duration until each one die.

Assuming they all have the same ammount of HP and do the same damage (otherwise it will be very different), it is obvious that you want to make sure you get kills done as fast as possible since as soon as you kill an enemy, you are recieveing damage from one less enemy. Which monsters are the fastest you can kill? The ones NOT healing, hence kill them first.

Take an extreme, each "period of time" (whatever you have it as) you do 10 damage, the monsters have 100 HP and the healers heal 9 per time period. It will take an AWEFULL lot of time killing it. If you start with it, you have all the other monsters deal damage for all that long time, while if you take it last, you will only have its own damage done to you during that long time.

Perhaps we are talking about different things though.