Suggestion as to how to get people to become healers.

[Youkulm]

In regards to OP, ignoring all the other posts ( because it’s clearly changed into a bashing "lazy" healers thread. Or I assumed as such after reading 2 pages. )

I have no issues DPSing on healer for a majority of the runs ( it’s fairly simple and should be to anyone that has played healer long enough ). I have no issues stance dancing. It took getting used to but it’s not terribly complicated. However....

I'm all in favor of Cleric being removed. It adds nothing to the game other than needless complication to new and timid players. There is absolutely no reason in the world why healer damage cannot be scaled to their main stat. When I started this game and someone explained Cleric to me I didn't understand why it was in the game in the first place. Why in the world wouldn't a mage class do damage based on their main stat? It's silly.

To those in this thread whining that "Omg if you take cleric away healer would be so boring and not at all dynamic and I can’t lord my skill level over lesser beings who suck at my job!" ( paraphrasing of course ) I really don't think that will be an issue. You really think clicking one extra button ( 2 if you count dancing in and then out of cleric ) is what makes DPSing on healer fun? Really?! I thought it was the act of DPSing and making sure your party survives, as a whole, not that one little red button.

Also if you think removing Cleric is going to make "lazy" healers DPS it won’t. They still won’t do it. ( that whole mentality of I play healer, I only heal.. is never going to go anywhere. Cleric or no Cleric that mentality is here to stay ). The removal of Cleric will however make DPSing on healer much more approachable and less frightening to baby ( non-endgame ) healers and even "Lazy" healers. Sooo guess what? You still get to lord over other people and sleep well at night because you're clearly a superior being. /sarcasm

Just get rid of Cleric it’s so unnecessary. It’s bad design and it should have never been in the game to begin with. The dev team needs to do the right thing just like they did with tanks and STR. Fix it already.

Of course this is all opinion. Take it as you will.