Quote Originally Posted by cicatriz313 View Post
I don't see why healers feel like they need "recognition", you were the odd man out. Out of three different groups, they could only do 2. They haven't gone into changes they're making to combat classes because there's going to be an apparently super long live letter in May. I haven't heard anything about melee jobs yet besides "TP is going away, or something" and I'm not saying I should have been given more info. They didn't give the same reason, honestly, they said what they tried in 4.0 isn't working and they want to change it from the shield healer/direct healer paradigm.
I feel like that because it is like you said - healers were the the odd man out. We are the unlucky ones, who have to live with no "new toy" until at least 6.0. Maybe it is like you said, someone had to draw the short straw, which is hard enough to accept, because this is entirely there own fault for the choices they made in the past - but okay I'll let that slide.
But the way they handled the whole thing at fan fest felt (at least for me) like they kind of forgot that healers are a thing that exists... no mention or recognition at all.

If they had gone this way during fan fest:
"We know that players were expecting a healing job for ShB, but we decided to go for a rDPS , because we aren't happy with healer balance right now and there will be a major rework for the healing jobs in 5.0! There will be more info on that in our live letter in may, please be patient."
I think the whole discussion would be a lot different!