[EQ2] Healing Strategies questions

[Ellay]

My class makeup is SK, Fury, Wiz, Illy, Conj, Troub. It is primarily a ranged based team. Only the tank needs to be in melee range and the rest can sit back and dps. I tried speccing a warden melee and converting the illy to more melee based but a lot of fights there is aoe's that you need to joust out of or avoid completely. It is just so much less hassle being able to dps from afar and still maintain good damage. On a lot of fights you can position your team behind a boss and go to town, but for every 5 of those, there will be a boss where you need to joust or move away and I want optimal uptime so no melee for me, although they do a lot of damage.
Second issue with melee is they are extremely dependant on auto attack swings, while casting isn't.

[Lyonheart]

a lot of fights there is aoe's that you need to joust out of or avoid completely. .

The term "joust" used to confuse me.. SKs have an ability called joust and it ports you TO the mobs. When they use " you have to joust when the mob starts to cast his AE" i was like " umm.. dont I want to get out? not port into the AE?" lol! but after seeing "joust" used so many times in fights, i knew what they meant. I had just never seen it used for "GTFO" before.. So i wonder when/where they started using it for that meaning ( gtfo )

Anyway.. you are right, with a melee team you want to be able to see your swing timers for all your tunes..BUt based on different reuse timers, cooldowns and such.. its very hard to maximize melee dps boxed. You can still do great numbers though, just takes a lot more work. I love melee in this game though, it takes a lot more skill and training to master a melee in EQ2 than WoW.

With that said, any new teams i make will be tank+ all casters. There are no healers that do "great" dps at range though ( that i know of ). Almost all of them have to convert to melee spec to do respectable dps.