Well, no healer has infinite MP, so there is a balance to be struck.
Better compromise: Instead of 3 DDs, get two good melees and a DNC. Haste Samba for yet more damage + massive supplement to healing if needed.
Depends on the DD. In a good pt then people can afford to play that way because mobs will die so fast that they're not much of a threat at all, but if said DDs are merely average, then kills will be slower, they'll take more damage etc. and so MP will get strained. It's not always the rdm's fault.
Auto-Refresh will pay for what, a couple extra Cure IVs per Convert cycle? If you have people eating extra TP moves 2-3 times a minute because they aren't using Seigan or /NIN, that'll still present a problem.
Again, not sayin' it's impossible for DDs to basically go balls to the wall and succeed without draining hundreds of MP a minute, but for pickup especially, you can't necessarily assume that they can.
Really, a lot of a healer's success is based on how efficient the rest of the party is.
It gained a Merit.
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Raptor Gloves, Carapace Feet, Brass Pants, Was singing Blade Madr/Attack and he had an awesome 49% Accuracy and was hitting for 40-80, with Penta doing anywhere from 200-400 DMG
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Oh, Monsoon Spear
Counterstance is a huge amount of damage mitigation, as well as free damage. Just sayin'.
you're comparing fulltime hasso to counterstanced mnk/war
Funny, I don't recall making any specific statements of the sort. Simply that it's entirely possible for DDs to be taking too much damage regardless of the healer involved. Aiden wasn't only complaining about MNKs.
Like I said, if it works, it works. If it doesn't, then don't immediately point at the healer.
Berserk
Because the WARs and SAMs aren't using Berserk?
Warrior always subs SAM or NIN and has a form of evading, Samurai/Warrior still has seigan, monk has Dodge and Counterstance?, just sayin dodge doesn't give a significant boost to eva and counterstance drops defense to shit and stacked with berserk is pretty bad, flurry can drop an unlucky monk.
Needs more gimps!