Nobody Really Wants To Heal

[Makeda]

People do love to play healer but truthfully nobody wants to be a full on healer as it's boring and quite frankly just not fun.

This is just false on so many levels.

There are plenty of people that want nothing more than to play a pure healer - they've just been told this is not the MMO for them. Often rudely so (assorted variation on 'git gud').

I used to be proud of getting a character to max level and almost through the MSQ in Guild Wars 1 with a lifetime total damage done of 0.

I used to main healers in many MMOs a decade back. But games slowly told me I was no longer welcome.

I saw healers get rarer... not because people didn't want to heal, but because one after the other MMOs told them to DPS, and changed fight design such that full-time healing was not needed and was a waste of a resource (left a player with downtime).

We didn't abandon wanting to heal - we got pushed out by the entire industry.

Thankfully for me, I discovered tanking.

But other people just left the genre.

I don't believe SE is actually willing to welcome real healer players back...the entire industry pushed us out after all... and if they did... I'm not sure if my fellow compatriots from the old days of MMOs actually having healers are still around anywhere... I think this is really just a panic from you 'DPSers that take one for the team' afraid some us who were actual healers might show up on the block again...

BUT... they did exist, and I have to believe many still do, as I keep seeing people try to do it before they get treated with extreme rudeness for the choice... Granted because the industry pushed healers out, the choice is a bad one to make 'meta wise'... so I get that people react badly when they see an actual healer player... Regrettable negativity, but I get it...

Don't ever say we don't want to heal...

YOU don't want to heal.

That's different.