The adds die fast, yes, but 5s is not "a bit", it's a big exaggeration (on progression) or wasted DPS (on farm), or both. It's not 1 add per 5 seconds, it's all 4 adds, which means an average of ~2s per add at the same time. Yeah, right, i'm interested in seeing his guild DPS on progression which achieved that.
As assasin / warblades are relatively harmless (and sniper when it's farm) compared to shamans / arcweavers, it makes no difference whether they die 10s after they spawn, or just right before the next wave spawn (heck, I know a lot of guilds on progression don't even bother with warblades and just let multi-dotters + tank to take care of them, resulting in >=2 warblades up at a time at some point)
Hardly an exaggeration
3 seconds for both the shaman and Arcweaver, 1.5 for Assassin because of multidotting, total of 4.5 seconds tops.
Sniper is soloed by the disc priest(which I play), Ironblade is taunted to the boss and cleaved down.
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I don't need to prove anything to you, I am content with having good dps, and you are adamant that you don't have any. It's not my problem, it's yours.
Last edited by PosPosPos; 2014-05-12 at 09:37 PM.
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Well, perhaps this is different in 25s, but unless you turn the back to them (where they two shot everyone) they can easily be tanked even by a cloth wearer in 10p and the victim can easily be healed "by the way" without a dedicated healer.
It is much safer to tank them instead of running away, because the chance they will hit you from behind and therefor kills you increases drastically then.
But again, talking about 10p.
Played internet detective, if you are the pally named Pospospos with the disc priest alt Sopsopsop, your guilds' logs - both 10 and 25 - surely don't show your adds going down that fast even by now, much less during progression. You may want to check your logs again to make sure it wasn't just your imagination (which it probably was).
Additionally, seeing you mentioned solo-ing sniper with your priest, I guess you were talking about 10 man. Shaman + Arcweaver + Assasin makes it ~25M hp. Killing 25M HP within 5s means your DPS (+1 tank) were pulling an average of 705k each during progression. Doubt that happened on every waves.