Paradigm shifting for healer needs to be fixed.

[DarkmoonVael]

I like the current meta. 1 main healer and 1 hybrid dps/healer that heals only when necessary. There's nothing that needs to be fixed since there's nothing broken.
You can say that you don't like it and that you would like to see it change, but this is just how devs shaped their game.

By raid you mean...Alexander Savage? It's the most difficult raid to date. Thordan is the most challenging ex trial as well, both for healers and tanks/dps (still quite easy though, but I do like it a lot). I think it's just that the end game community is getting better and healers are learning how to be more efficient. It's not like every turn of coil couldn't be solohealed anyway.

I think Thordan ex loses out to Titan ex in terms of difficulty at gear level when released. Also coil could be solo healed......after countless dozens of hours of practise and learning. Its disingenuous to try and use that as an argument, no one went into coils with one healer from the outset.

As for the current state of events in Alexander Savage, yes the emphasis on healers and tanks having to do all out dps as well as all out healing and all out tanking is a little bit of a design flaw. If they want this to be the trend, they need to severely blur the lines of the trinity, or do away with it for good. If they keep the trinity then they need to design raids to test your specific role within the trinity.

[Lastelli]

I think Thordan ex loses out to Titan ex in terms of difficulty at gear level when released...

I cordially disagree. Titan was only a matter of coordination (and latency), the dps check was quite forgiving and mechanics in thordan in my opinion require way more coordination than titan.

Also, you missed my point about Coil, but that is my fault, I should've been clearer. After a few months from release, you could already see several groups clearing coil last turns with just one healer. It could be done, with a lot of practice and at max ilvl, yes, but it could be done quite easily. Now, the only A3S solo heal clear I'm aware of is from Elysium, and no A4S clear yet. How long has it been? 4-5 months, right? As a healer, I know that the damage going on in AS is much higher than what I had to deal with in coil.

[DarkmoonVael]

I cordially disagree. Titan was only a matter of coordination (and latency), the dps check was quite forgiving and mechanics in thordan in my opinion require way more coordination than titan.

Also, you missed my point about Coil, but that is my fault, I should've been clearer. After a few months from release, you could already see several groups clearing coil last turns with just one healer. It could be done, with a lot of practice and at max ilvl, yes, but it could be done quite easily. Now, the only A3S solo heal clear I'm aware of is from Elysium, and no A4S clear yet. How long has it been? 4-5 months, right? As a healer, I know that the damage going on in AS is much higher than what I had to deal with in coil.

My reasoning is that with titan you had stricter dps checks with both super bombs and adds as well as the precision needed with mechanics.

The damage in in Savage Alexander is greater compared to coils, but the abilities we have as healers are greater. Indomniability on Scholar really make stance dancing a lot easier with the ability to do a very powerful instant cast aoe heal. White mage now has low cooldown single target instant heal and aoe heal+mana regain. The damage has gone up, but not more so than our helaing output capabilities and out healing spells. With A3 savage and A4 savage, the gear check is clearly the highest we have seen in the game so far, solo healing these places will be difficult for anyone.