The Healer Double Standard

[Billythepancake]

WHM is the only healer I play. When I play a healer I expect the complexity to be in healing. When tanking I expect the complexity to be in the defensive and protective abilities.

See, this argument would actually hold some water, if healing was complex in anyway. That's the problem, healing itself is not interesting or engaging enough on it's own, the current healers have so many healing tools that do so much you can spend almost the entire time not healing. If the game devs designed the game around healers healing more, having to consistantly use our healing tools to their maximum potential, and made the healing actually complex and fulfilling to do, I would agree 100% that the dps tools we have right now are fine, because I'd be too busy healing and using those tools to their maximum potential to notice my lack of dps tools. But that's not the case, if my tank is at 80% hp why would I heal them, if they're above half why would I heal them, I dont worry about their hp until they're at least at 40, I'm which case I'll throw on an excog and call it a day. Healers have always healed, and not to say I dont find healing fun, hell, if I wanted just a complex rotation I'd have mained monk or summoner, but healers found their complexity elsewhere in their tools, that made juggling those ON TOP OF heals much more fun. SCHs had their dps rotation and the risk vs reward factor of energy drain to keep them engaged. ASTs had their card systems, managing buffs, timing stars to keep them engaged. This is why people are upset, the things that made these healers engaging is gone, the heals alone are not enough to keep us engaged, the game is just not designed to be for pure healers, no matter how much the game devs want to push it.