The arrogance of some people

[NorthernLadMSP]

I was on my SMN the other night in Expert (trying to get the Plague Bringer chest), and we had this amazing PLD who was using CDs and mitigating damage like nobody's business. The SCH was literally standing around the entire dungeon throwing an occasional Physick up. Other than that he did absolutely nothing the whole dungeon.

Did he keep everyone alive? Yes.

Did I consider him a great healer? Hell no. Someone like that will never get a commendation from me.

[Tint]

I was on my SMN the other night in Expert (trying to get the Plague Bringer chest), and we had this amazing PLD who was using CDs and mitigating damage like nobody's business. The SCH was literally standing around the entire dungeon throwing an occasional Physick up. Other than that he did absolutely nothing the whole dungeon.

Did he keep everyone alive? Yes.

Did I consider him a great healer? Hell no. Someone like that will never get a commendation from me.

and that's exactly the reason i don't want to play healer anymore. when i have to dps almost all the time, why not playing a dps class? this game has failed so hard in making healing interesting... the person who keep you alive, heals you through stupid is no longer part of the team. you >have< to bring one of them to the dungeon, but i don't even know why(?). their dps is bad. and nowadays you don't really need the heals.

it's just no fun anymore to play a healer. because of the overpowered 3.0 skills and the ilvl which increases waaay to fast. ilvl 170 dungeons? we are already ilvl 210... doing content unsynced with lvl 60? just remove the healer classes from the game or turn them into real dps classes with enough mana and accuracy _._

[Kaurie]

and that's exactly the reason i don't want to play healer anymore. when i have to dps almost all the time, why not playing a dps class? this game has failed so hard in making healing interesting... the person who keep you alive, heals you through stupid is no longer part of the team. you >have< to bring one of them to the dungeon, but i don't even know why(?). their dps is bad. and nowadays you don't really need the heals.

it's just no fun anymore to play a healer. because of the overpowered 3.0 skills and the ilvl which increases waaay to fast. ilvl 170 dungeons? we are already ilvl 210... doing content unsynced with lvl 60? just remove the healer classes from the game or turn them into real dps classes with enough mana and accuracy _._

Interesting, I have the opposite opinion. It is what makes healing so fun in this game. Each run is much more dynamic than a DPS. When I go on a first pull as my SMN, I do the exact same rotation each time. With a healer, it's more like a few rotations mixed in with priorities. Like, if my tank is dying faster than normal, I can't spam as many holies, or if it's barely taking any damage, I can DPS way more etc. I find the weaving of a DPS rotation in with healing with different tanks/DPS makes for each run to be different than the last.