And do you know WHY the old formula was ditched a long time ago?
Because healers have this thing called “over-healing”. Tanks have this thing called “over-mitigation”. But DDs dont have a thing called “over-DPS”.
Here. Have a read:
Basically. If you want healers to heal, you need damage for them to heal. Otherwise they just stand there doing nothing…
Correction. Not “nothing”. They will be EXPECTED to DPS, like in SL.
So. If you DONT want to DPS, then you are in a high damage, high burst, high stress healing scenario. If you want to heal, but NOT have high stress, high damage, high burst then you DPS.
It has been the feedback loop since Vanilla basically. So if you want a “no stress” healing situation, AND not have to DPS, then you have to dump your GCDs on something other than DPS. Like CC for example.