2008-09-14, 01:56 PM
Heal beats SR on smaller amounts of mobs (especially 1) due to it's high cast rate. SR can hit harder and is more consistent (that is to say, it's min is a lot closer to it's max), but Heal's speed alone allows for higher DPS on smaller mobs.
And perhaps AR would be able to beat it, but again, the cast rate on Heal would still be MUCH higher. I haven't done any math on it, but I wouldn't guess that AR could function as a fair AoE and still maintain higher single target DPS than Heal. Only reason Heal can get the fair single target DPS it can as a AoE is because it has a different damage formula that makes it hit less for every additional mob.
And perhaps AR would be able to beat it, but again, the cast rate on Heal would still be MUCH higher. I haven't done any math on it, but I wouldn't guess that AR could function as a fair AoE and still maintain higher single target DPS than Heal. Only reason Heal can get the fair single target DPS it can as a AoE is because it has a different damage formula that makes it hit less for every additional mob.