The Healer Double Standard

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Problem is, they have yet to come out and say definitively why they've done it (that I've seen). Was it the players expectations that healers should dps and the dev's didn't agree with that? Possibly. But that's a failure of design on their part by designing a game for the past 6 years that allowed that playstyle to happen.

I don't know, responsibility falls a bit on both sides in my opinion. Sure, they allowed healers to be played the way they are/have been, but the other side of the coin is the playerbase running away with that style and widening that divide further than may have been originally considered possible. Even still, if you think it was a design flaw then SE have every right to fix it, don't they?

Look I empathize with the healers to a certain degree, SCH especially because it's a significant difference to the way they've always played. But at the end of the day it's probably not that going to be that bad, the core play of a healer is still the same: Put up dot, spam GCD attack, heal as needed. Whether you have 1 dot, or 3 dots, it's all an obstacle, it's just a button to be pressed at some specific point in time. Now you'll simply be pressing something else instead.

And you know something else, consider this with a grain of salt. Maybe they just want healers that preffered to spend most of the time pushing DPS to just roll a DPS job instead. People like myself that have dabbled in healing, that don't know wtf they are doing and let tanks die in levelling roulette while I set up my dots on sch - well healing will be a bit easier for people like me. (not that I want to be a healer main now). So it's just something else to consider, they are trying to make healers more appealing and simple just like they did with tanks. And both tanks and healers are arguably the most important roles to keep filled.

(all that being said, they should still make some jobs more technical for players that enjoy that, instead of just dumbing everything down to the same level)