Dear SE, I am a Healer

[Tsalmaveth]

Welp, a MrHappy interview went up and I can't say I'm ANY happier with the comments made by YoshiP. I love the guy... I really really do. But I'm sorry, from a Healer's perspective... this just doesn't fly with me. They've had 2 rounds of 'we are balancing things!' now and have not gotten it right. Only now are they going to rip everything down and rebuild? They could have brought a Ranged-physical DPS in with SB and instead brought a 4th Melee in. 'Balance the Classes' is still a bad reason to me at this point.

EDIT: Lawl, Valkyrie and I posted it at the same time... XD

[Ayer2015]

Welp, a MrHappy interview went up and I can't say I'm ANY happier with the comments made by YoshiP. I love the guy... I really really do. But I'm sorry, from a Healer's perspective... this just doesn't fly with me. They've had 2 rounds of 'we are balancing things!' now and have not gotten it right. Only now are they going to rip everything down and rebuild? They could have brought a Ranged-physical DPS in with SB and instead brought a 4th Melee in. 'Balance the Classes' is still a bad reason to me at this point.

EDIT: Lawl, Valkyrie and I posted it at the same time... XD

I highly doubt the devs will make the degree of changes needed to achieve what Yoshi outlined in the MrHappy interview. We would be looking at a massive overhaul and partial redesign of 3 jobs..... I hope I'm wrong, but I expect to be underwhelmed come May. That said, I hope they do pull it off, because as it stands the healer kits are far too similar, and who know when we will see a new healer, if ever.

[Tsalmaveth]

I highly doubt the devs will make the degree of changes needed to achieve what Yoshi outlined in the MrHappy interview. We would be looking at a massive overhaul and partial redesign of 3 jobs..... I hope I'm wrong, but I expect to be underwhelmed come May. That said, I hope they do pull it off, because as it stands the healer kits are far too similar, and who know when we will see a new healer, if ever.

My fear is that he's pinpointed SCH as being 'overpowered' and then said he wanted to 'simplify' WHM. I mean... that's just not cool to me on either count. SCH is one of the solid UNIQUE classes, right? And WHM doesn't really need to be made 'simple' it needs the utility of it brought up so that AST doesn't just stomp all over it tool-kit-wise. He seems to be missing the point of what PLAYERS are doing with the classes. When I worked in the game industry, one of the whole points of my job was to translate what PLAYERS were doing to the developers because(no I was not a community rep type, I was in a QA type position but part of my entire hiring point was that I was brought on with the full intent of 'please TELL US what actual PLAYERS are doing') and let me tell you, there was a lot of back and forth and arguments about it because it didn't always translate. What the 'intention' of the developer and what the players actually DO are really not always inline AT ALL. And that is often a problem. There has been a lot of talk that YoshiP doesn't want WHM/Healers to be DPSing? And yet that is NOT what players do. At. All. So what happens if the re-balancing is with that in mind? If that is the 'goal'? There may be a serious disconnect between the developer 'ideal' and the players actual 'play style'... and it's a concern.