Time to expand a little on my comments about SE needing to hire a healer designer.

[HyperiusUltima]

Remember when Eureka was delayed to 3.1 or whatever because the dev team nearly killed themselves working on HW? I 'member.

God I still remember Yoshida calling it "Hellsward" because of how hard it was.

[loreleidiangelo]

God I still remember Yoshida calling it "Hellsward" because of how hard it was.

I remember reading somewhere that HW was only slated to have DRK and MCH as the newest jobs but they added AST in at the last minute...and if that's actually the case, frankly it showed with how poorly designed that job is to this day. The spell effects of AST are gorgeous and I love the job's overall theme, but the Sect system is lazy and terrible and was a really strong demonstration IMO of how overwork really stifles the dev team's creativity when it comes to new healers.

[Recon1o6]

I remember reading somewhere that HW was only slated to have DRK and MCH as the newest jobs but they added AST in at the last minute...and if that's actually the case, frankly it showed with how poorly designed that job is to this day. The spell effects of AST are gorgeous and I love the job's overall theme, but the Sect system is lazy and terrible and was a really strong demonstration IMO of how overwork really stifles the dev team's creativity when it comes to new healers.

Mch was supposed to be chemist actually with the gun. They ended up splitting it into two jobs

so yeah, they were making a tank and a healer, both of which turned out to be incredibly popular and now they gone and wrecked both of them

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It is a combination of factors that feed into one another.
-SE doesn't have a healer designer and is unwilling to listen to feedback>healers do not get designers that take SE goals and playerbase feedback into account>healers are terrible
-SE does not have the staff required for the many roles>jobs getting pushed out untested>jobs dont get adjusted with feedback>healers are terrible

obv thats simplified, but it is completely clear at this point that SE does not give a damn about healers, and even if they did, they don't give the resources to do things mid expansion without harming their favourite dps jobs. They only made sage to round off numbers and generate hype which is why the hype for it has died down the moment its toolkit got released. All its got going for it is gundam aesthetics and being able to start at 70