Will Healers Still be Forced to DPS in 4.0 Due to Lax Content?

[Vladmiere]

Oh god, yes please. As many faults as I have found with WoW (and Blizzard in general) over the years, Mythic+ is pretty perfect for people looking for a challenge without needing to fully commit to a static.

Its not all its cracked up to be. Its basically farming the easiest timed keystones and only certain classes/specs are really used. Plus 90% of the runs are rmt runs. If they do allow such dungeons it should be server only custom parties.

[Aramina]

Its not all its cracked up to be. Its basically farming the easiest timed keystones and only certain classes/specs are really used. Plus 90% of the runs are rmt runs. If they do allow such dungeons it should be server only custom parties.

Well... of course people do that, but I was speaking of personal experience... I had absolute loads of fun seeing how high of a keystone we could push/3 chest. Healing that was a blast.

[BlastHardcheese]

My question going forward into Stormblood is always going to be: They're removing Cleric Stance, why wouldn't you spend your GCD's throwing out dots or the odd Aoe?

I play an undergeared (just broke i200) Astrologian, I know people aren't healing 100% of the time, I can't understand how they find it entertaining casting a spell every 3 to 4 seconds...

Granted I'm not going to berate people for NOT dpsing I just can't understand the mentality...

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Granted I'm not going to berate people for NOT dpsing I just can't understand the mentality...

I main a DPS and a tank. The majority of my play already involves being a wheeling mass of destruction blowing up and decimating everything and everyone that dares glance my way, cackling like a lunatic as blood stains the sand and gunshots ring out over the noise of battle joined.

On the rare occasions I play healer, I'm hoping for a different experience, instead of being a ranting, raving murderer, being a calm, comforting, supportive character looking out for their charges and protecting them.

Instead I get a pyrophile encouraged play style that in many ways feels even more psychotic than the actual dps classes. Is it any wonder not everyone considers healer dps blase? It's literally more of the same, only instead of gunshots it's grenades.

[Cynfael]

On the rare occasions I play healer, I'm hoping for a different experience, instead of being a ranting, raving murderer, being a calm, comforting, supportive character looking out for their charges and protecting them.

Snuggles the Bear confirmed as next Job. Please look forward to it.

[BlastHardcheese]

Snip.

Oh, fair point if it's a holiday job from the rigorous spamming of cool downs that's understandable.

Though I've always viewed helping to blow stuff up as a kind of healing, if it's dead it can't hurt anyone :P

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Oh, fair point if it's a holiday job from the rigorous spamming of cool downs that's understandable.

Though I've always viewed helping to blow stuff up as a kind of healing, if it's dead it can't hurt anyone :P

Eh. I just want a healer that has very little or no personal dps, but lots of support for it's party members, of some kind. That would be infinitely more fun than any other healer job currently in game.

[Cyrocco]

Eh. I just want a healer that has very little or no personal dps, but lots of support for it's party members, of some kind. That would be infinitely more fun than any other healer job currently in game.

Only way that's happening is by nerfing the hell out of the heal potencies.

[Elamys]

My question going forward into Stormblood is always going to be: They're removing Cleric Stance, why wouldn't you spend your GCD's throwing out dots or the odd Aoe?

I play an undergeared (just broke i200) Astrologian, I know people aren't healing 100% of the time, I can't understand how they find it entertaining casting a spell every 3 to 4 seconds...

Granted I'm not going to berate people for NOT dpsing I just can't understand the mentality...

There can be a few reasons. For some people it can be...I guess either stressful or unfun to watch both your party's health and the mob's health. But there can also be physical limitations to it too. Someone I know in game has use of only one hand. I'm not going to expect them to be super fast on target switching and juggling healing and DPS, since I know that even playing DPS can be hard for them. I didn't used to know that and just thought they were bad at the game. When I learned that it was kind of eye-opening so now I try not to just assume that every person that makes a lot of mistakes is just an idiot.

I'm sure the amount of people playing with physical limitations is small, but having played with that person, as well as the elderly and others with physical issues, I would just rather not make assumptions. Healer DPS never seemed to shave off too much time anyways.

[Marcu18]

No us healers aren't. Yoshida already expressed and said to Mr Happy1227 "stress this to your viewers. I do NOT expect healers to dps"..