Dear SE, I am a Healer

[LuciferNacht]

So what if SE decided to delete WHM, and make a promise to never release another healer ever again, as well as make sure all healer skills were useless. So only tanks and DPS got new goodies ever again. Would that make you happy? After all, we should be grateful we still have SCH and AST right? I've been watching this thread but with how these arguments have gone, time to see what you'd REALLY be happy with. I actually think at this point they should just delete WHM (my main), and make it so only tanks and DPS only get new goodies, as well as permanently banning any player with any healer at 70 (those who level it to 70 after it won't get banned). Seems like it's the only way we're going to quell this argument.

Posting on an alt since I hit the limit, I personally would be fine if they chose to do that as I don't play healer jobs. I don't think they ever will because that would be crazy and obviously a bad move. Giving ranged dps a third job wasn't crazy nor a bad move, so not sure what this hypothetical is about. I'm not saying the dev team is infallible, I'm saying players who think like me are on the side of the dev team on this one.

Please don't be deliberately obtuse.
I made my point, you just ignore it.
Also refresh/tactician has little to do on making BRD part of the meta.

Again, you had no point. You were nitpicking an argument by leaving out part of my quote. Tactician/refresh are the maaain reasons why people bring ranged dps. Groups specifically recruit for BRD atm because it's better, but many will settle for GOOD MCH because MCH also has those skills. If you don't see that, look at the ff14 recruitment reddit. The only other utility BRD has is the 2% crit, which is definitely useful but not nearly as useful as mana for starved healers.

I’m not saying they HAVE to play a different dps job/sub role, I was saying IF THEY WANT TO there’s other playstyles. Dps don’t have to step out of dps to try different playstyles outside of their preferred one. There’s people who do it, I’m not saying people have to branch out lmfao.

I... didn't say you said people HAVE to. But you did and still do minimize the difference between dps types. It doesn't matter if dps will still be dps, if you like a type of job it wouldn't be fun to play another type of job. And again, I agree that it would be cool for healers to get different types like melee healer (I thought this would be dancer too!) or like using a potion gun or w/e. That would be awesome.