Where do you find "The Love"?

[Treesh]

Pay attention to any battle where a dps class (rogue or mage) goes down early in a 5-man fight.  This is a good way to lead to problems because that loss of dps leads to mobs living longer and doing more damage.  As important as the tank/healer are to group survival they will not succeed in many cases without the dps there.  I'm sure you could handle some encounters with 2 warriors and 3 priests but it would probably take all night and still be a nailbiter in the end.  That dps is a very important part of a solid group.
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I agree completely with this and this is part of the reason why no one is expendable in a group to me when I'm playing Aleri. There were times when the mages were more important to keep alive than the tank because without their DPS, we wouldn't have come out alive since Gnolack is protection specced and Aleri is holy and the things were doing more damage to us than we were to them without the mages around. To those who don't think DPS is that important, make them play some of these classes/specs that are really wimpy with DPS and see how much easier life is with some good solid DPS in the mix. Things that Gnolack and Aleri had huge issues with, Taranna and Etheramwen blew right through because of the extra DPS. Things can't hurt you as much if they die quickly. :)