2012-08-14, 01:42 PM
Aflac Wrote:I beg to differ, time spent potting is time not attacking. If you have to pot every time you get hit to prevent death by the next attack, that means you're fragile, even if you have high DPS. Then there's pot cooldown, which prevents pot spam. You can bring all the DPS classes you want to Empress, but if they all die in one hit, whereas the Paladins and Shadowers are still alive, then the DPS classes that died are glass cannons and Pallys/Shads are tanks. The concept was clearer pre-BB when you had bishops dedicated to healing and Dark Knights solely for Hyper Body for the fragile Night Lords and Bowmasters but the idea of a glass cannon still exists.
You mention time spent potting, yet this isn't even an issue. AutoHP is permanent and easily acquired, even with meso. You can also use potions during "key-down" attacks, so I don't see where this point is coming from.
At no point in time is time spent potting ever even remotely an issue unless you stop everything, type to your party "Hey guys, is my HP low enough?", wait for a response, and then press the hotkey for whatever potion you use.