Originally Posted by
Valicard
It has nothing to do with "teaching" anyone anything about raid tactics. Believe me, when you wipe for 6 hours on the same boss the very simplistic tactics required in ANY tier raiding is emblazoned in their mind. What it has got to do with is teaching how to play the class their currently on...except with tanking and aggro (you can only get this down by actually doing the raid with the other tank, can't prepare for this, there is no aggro meter and different tanks develop weird quirks on how they get aggro and dish out certain aggro levels in certain intervals of a fight). DPS,Heals,Tank, is the order of importance for a "good" raid force if you MUST order them. Although, all are equally important (with any one being "bad" will lead to failure no matter what) you can still adjust DPS to accomodate tanks and heals can be increased in lieu of DPS in order to support weaker tanks. But DPS is DPS, and how the very un-imaginative way this game was setup, DPS is king. If your raidforce has enough DPS, you are basically 90% of the way there. Although, I have limited experience in T5, I'm willing to bet a ton of DPS is probably the most important component. In this regard, 90% of the players out there do not "maximize" their toon's DPS. In fact, it's usually as much as 65% below max potential DPS for their AA's and gear.
Also, there are a precious few good healers in the game anymore. I can name a few, Awuelo is an excellent healer, Frigg which I believe is in a U.S. guild is probably THE best BS on Crom server Euro or US side, Zavon on his ToS has the same output as 3 "standard" healers in the game currently, and maybe 5 more that are in various (mostly Euro side guilds). All other healers are total trash, I'm sorry if you're doing anything less then 450 hps (which is really really easy to do) you're failing at healing. Watch this slow train-wreck suddenly speed up when/if DT's get nerfed.. the QQs will be epic.