Is dpsing and a healer becoming the standard norm!

[ZephyrMenodora]

it has very little to do with VIT accessories. The stops preventing large pulls is the main reason. The incoming damage per second to the tank is overall much lower.

This is a change I'm not yet aware of as I am still level 50 and just got Heavensward today. If the zones now really require almost no healing then by all means dps. At 50 this is not the case and the roulette I do still feature large pulls and constant healing needed on the tank (and usually dps who pull aggro or are melee). This thread makes me worry because I enjoy shining as a healer - turning impossible situations around and really excelling AT HEALING. It sounds like Heavensward may not be the game for me because this thread leads me to believe that there are not opportunities for healers to demonstrate real healing skill and are now judged by how often they throw out a dps skill. This concept, not healing, bores me.

I've mained healing classes since EQ in 1999 and back then we were only really asked to heal, buff, and maybe stun. We had a heal that literally had a 10 second cast time and at the time I played groups were ecstatic if they just had no deaths. Things slowly started changing over the years where more games have communities that want their healers to DPS if the game even has a healing class at all. The only thing that remains consistent is that the healing classes remain the most criticized and unappreciated classes in games.


If a healer is actually bad as people are saying you would notice as you would die. but today a healer is bad even if they don't allow anyone to die and remove debuffs. Now they also not only have to add dps but good dps. The actual dps classes are typically not just allowed to be mediocre, but criticize healers now too.

I actually main healing classes because I actually like to heal. I see dps in this thread insulting healers who like to heal. WTF is this? An extension of healing I enjoy is curing debuffs and casting stuns and debuffs if we have them. If I wanted to dps I'd main another class.