How to tell you don't read without telling you don't read, much less trying to understand (even less being able to mayhaps).
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If the healer role would be more realistic, you'd probably go in debt for offering your service.
Reading is important, but I don't blame you for not wanting to read 900+ pages of a thread.
There is, however, a summary and bunch of links on the first post explaining the issue with healers. I guess that was too much of a difficult task to do too?
My friend has played SGE since EW release, and while she enjoys it much more than any other healer, after years of playing she agrees healers are boring irregardless of what you do. She did the ultimate, she did savage, her opinion doesn't change: healer job is horrendous.
I told her myself "if you see you don't enjoy it anymore, why are you still playing healers?" her answer usually results in "I've always played healer" and I understand that sentiment as well.
You can play a healer role and still hate what it has become.
Yall realize you're responding to someone obviously just stirring the pot, right? I mean, good for them for keeping the thread up, but you might as well be arguing with a wall.
No need to be anxious. Everyone has to learn at some point.
Now, I can only speak for myself here, but The Wiping City of Mhach is one of my favourite alliance raids specifically because it can go horribly wrong. It feels good to drag back the team from the brink of disaster by keeping your head cool and running triage. Maybe my brain is just broken from having mained healers in MMOs for years but these situations are what I used to love about the role. They made me feel something other than boredom.
Oh hey, another preachy person who has Shiny New Class Syndrome, coming to tell us how horrible it will be for us that they make our DPS queues shorter. Oh no, how horrible. They really got us this time, guys!
By the way, Ria, let us know how things are going when you've played Sage at max level in current content, for a bit, will you? You literally don't have a single healing job leveled to 100, so you coming here calling us whiny is quite hilarious. Just another entitled tank/DPS main, as usual.
Another go for the benefit of the doubt, but yeah. It's a good idea to read the counter points from your opposition before diving into the offensive of a debate.
The healers posting here are more asking for something comparable to a tank rotation. Maybe 2 - 3 extra buttons for it? A few healer spells will need to be consolidated to make room for it. If more healing is needed from unavoidable damage, that could help with seeing GCD healing usage. The expected DPS numbers should remain close to the same to a bit lower under high healing situations. So essentially, it is a request for more variety of animations to see on the class. The Dosis spam will always be there, but it is currently raising to around 80% of GCD usage levels from the graphs shown from Savage runs. Pretty high for just 1 button.
Some of your arguments are not making sense too. You are encouraging us to try the DPS role, then shaming us for not playing the healer. Kind of need to decide which statement is more important to say. In any case, I already said that I am DPSing in Expert roulette as a SAM. I also use Tengetsu and Feint to help reduce damage taken. We keep hearing SAM should use them before they get the Kaiten animation back but it seems rare anyone ever notices when I do it. Similar case for Addle as well.