Yoshi P to Mr.Happy "Heal DPS is not mandatory and no expectation for Healer to DPS!"

[GDFletcher]

Yoshida: We consider the leveling activities like instanced dungeons and end-game content like raids separately. We'd like people to be able to use healers in a more casual sense in instanced dungeons. With that in mind, we made a point of simplifying the role. On the other hand, you're really asked to push the role in end-game content. And in reality, it's likely that you'll need to look at elements besides just healing in those situations depending on your job composition and the skill level of the members. I understand very well that there are players who enjoy and have been doing well with the stance switching to attack and immediately back to healing. However, rather than changing stances back and forth, now you can use that spare moment for other role actions you might have set. I'm not saying you'll be doing a lot more things than before with the new role actions, but that will definitely be an area where players can improve.

https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/13...ew-Translation

[Belhi]

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Not really sure of the relevance of that, particularly since he mentions using Role skills and healers have no dpsing Role skills.

Also doesn't change what was said in the Mr Happy interview.

[Karathix]

healers have no dpsing Role skills.

... Cleric stance?

Like it's bad (if it's just 5% for 15s) but it's still a DPSing role skill.

I'd still rather things hit harder and i needed to be healing more.

[Lambdafish]

Not really sure of the relevance of that, particularly since he mentions using Role skills and healers have no dpsing Role skills.

Also doesn't change what was said in the Mr Happy interview.

I see the relevance, it expands upon Yoshi Ps view, and discredits the Mr Happy interview slightly (Yoshi P discrediting his own words, nothing against Happy). The cleric stance change was intended to make healer DPS more accessible, Yoshi P used the specific example of swiftcast holy and going straight back into healing. Their intent is for healer DPS to be a more fluid experience, and it is outright stated that healer DPS will be required for clearing raids close to minimum ilvl.

We can use this to gain a broader view of Yoshi Ps opinion. He understands that healer DPS is optimal, and should be done, however he doesnt want to say that because dungeons are casual content for casual players, so his answer is babying them in a sense, he is saying "yes it is the best way to play, and we have designed the system to make that playstyle accessible and fluid, but you don't have to if you don't want mr casual, it's ok to do what you want in casual content, because casual content is designed for the lowest common denominator"