The Healer Double Standard

[Elgeron]

I think I clearly articulated what I thought was a double standard and instead of arguing against my positions, you post this tripe.

Everything you post across the various topics has no real value other than "No because reasons without actually listing anything".

I'll say don't bother with her, did the same in other topics, never addresing the arguments and twisting arguments to make value attacks instead of actually explaining or argumenting her points.


Now, one thing I see, which I think is related to the double standart issue, is that people seem to be misinterpreting the issue; Healers don't want to DPS. The issue with healers was never about doing DPS, the removal of the DPS skill themselves isn't the problem, because then, why is AST and WHM complaining too? Their DPS skill are just the same as before. No, the problem is that healer classes have been striped of half of their kit, while WHM hasn't gained any. With this I mean what they did when soloing or when there was downtime. Is not that Healers want to be "green DPS", is that DPS was the way we contribute to the party, how we excel at our jobs by both keeping the party alive while contributing as much as possible. In the AST case, it wasn't so much DPSing as it was buffing. WHM was considered by many the "entry" healer class because its heals were powerful, but lacked any extra mechanic to worry about. SCH was the one which had the most interesting DPS rotation, wich was still quite simple, yet it interacted with our healing skills (using ED to fill the Fairy gauge and dump Aetherflow to avoid wasting it while helping conserving MP). I think this twisting of what the healer issues are hurts the discussion quite a bit.