I’m not saying that a single person in PVT gear is going to drag down the entire dungeon, otherwise I’d never run my own Cleric’s gear.
I am saying, however, that the difference in one person’s performance between gearsets is demonstrably different and if you had, say, three people geared out that way, the dungeon would indeed take much longer.
My time isn’t precious, but I don’t like staring at the same boss for near to five minutes because he was designed as a lazy hp sponge and we’re not kitted out to shred the sponge. Some of the zerker elitists and fanboys are kittenheads about it, but the fact still remains that it’s more efficient and ends fights faster. If people’s playstyles favor other stat spreads, that’s fine. I wear Cleric gear in dungeons many times because I like support and sometimes I’m just not on the ball enough to keep myself alive.
However, my damage output is demonstrably lower and battles take noticably longer. Even in dungeon parties I’ve run before.
You can handwave everything as being super complex and being unable to be proven because of all of these variables, but you can’t handwave the simple fact that you do tons more damage on bosses and most bosses are hp sponges that don’t pose a threat to anybody, Zerker gear or no.
