Dear SE, I am a Healer

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Gee I don't know they had 4 years to figure out how to resolve the development corner they drove themselves into. Well... 6 now. I might as well just roll out the red carpet for the dps, they get babied every expansion anyway.

And yeah we're asking for a new healer. It is getting... exceptionally stale. Healers spend more time dpsing than healing anyway. When people are asking for a new healer we aren't asking for it to continue to have these problems. I'm an AST main and I take issue with several things with it.

Then rather than a new healer that will have the same problems, shouldnt the big uproar be about getting the healing role itself fixed? Personally, I would rather have not had a new tank either. One of the reason I stopped tanking after raiding as PLD for 4 years was the ever increasing drive towards "MUH DEEPS" as a tank, over actually like, having to be a tank. Not as in just spamming aggro combos, but like. You don't tank in this game. You are a DPS with high defense. If I want to be a dps, I'll just play a dps, and thats what I did in Stormblood.

And frankly, if they can change WHM significantly enough for the better, it may as well be a new healing job. Its terrible right now (from a design standpoint. It has the least utility, the least dps, and the most healing power, which isnt needed because of the lack of damage going out that cant be burst healed or avoided by the other healers mechanics entirely.)

[Mesarthim]

shouldnt the big uproar be about getting the healing role itself fixed?

Actually this I heavily agree with but healing wasn't even addressed at the fanfest or else the healer community wouldn;t be in the uproar that it is. The only confirmation we got at all was "no healer", and white mage being easier to play than it already is despite the glaring flaws.

[Physic]

Then rather than a new healer that will have the same problems, shouldnt the big uproar be about getting the healing role itself fixed? Personally, I would rather have not had a new tank either. One of the reason I stopped tanking after raiding as PLD for 4 years was the ever increasing drive towards "MUH DEEPS" as a tank, over actually like, having to be a tank. Not as in just spamming aggro combos, but like. You don't tank in this game. You are a DPS with high defense. If I want to be a dps, I'll just play a dps, and thats what I did in Stormblood.

And frankly, if they can change WHM significantly enough for the better, it may as well be a new healing job. Its terrible right now (from a design standpoint. It has the least utility, the least dps, and the most healing power, which isnt needed because of the lack of damage going out that cant be burst healed or avoided by the other healers mechanics entirely.)

terrible in entertainment? or in execution, because i heard its perfectly adequate at high end content.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

terrible in entertainment? or in execution, because i heard its perfectly adequate at high end content.

Oh it plays fine. It doesnt play great, and people prefer sch/ast cuz utility and dps. just like sam is also adequate, but not preferred.