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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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There is virtually no real situation where a solid group can only pull 1 mob per 2 minutes, instead of every minute, when they have 2x as much DPS as a group who can pull every minute. Yet another fallacy from you.
You don't need a "good puller" most of the time. You just fucking pull shit, root the extras, and kill them 1 at a time. Anyone with a brain these days that has Root should be capable of doing this function.
Someone being a "bad puller" or "bad healer" in terms of what the player is doing is irrelevant to the discussion about class power level. You assess a class under the condition of what any solid player should be capable of doing, not what some braindead moron is doing. And if your group has half as much DPS, then you are simply going to be in a far worse position anyway if you have a bad CC'er or some healer who is asleep and incapable of pressing their heal button. More DPS means faster kills, which means you take less damage.
A magician is essentially an off-tank in a group situation like that anyway, because the pet can take one of the adds. Their ability to do compacted DPS with spells also becomes a benefit for a situation like that, being able to take down the first target quicker and thus reduce the amount of damage that would be taken from a pull where adds aren't being rooted properly.
The amount of DPS dictates how frequently you can pull more than anything else. Obviously you need heals as well in situations were you aren't using a kiting method, but the healer slot in a party is the same regardless in this comparison. Having half as much DPS doesn't suddenly make your healing situation better. It just means you are capable of far less and, again, are going to be taking more damage since you kill the pulls slower.
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An example is not a fallacy. I never claimed it was a realistic example. It's a simple example. Please learn what fallacies are.
Again, your assumption of perfect conditions is just silly, and it blinds you to understanding that a high DPS group can kill less than a lower DPS group.
Mages probably are the most underpowered class on P99, I am sorry. Their extra DPS doesn't make up for that, even assuming perfect conditons.