Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
The devs are well aware of the demand, we were told as such. And they also expressed why there was no healer this expansion, given that the ranged DPS slot had less options than healer. Given this, it is reasonable to assume that next expansion we will most likely get a healer and a caster (though how cool would it be if we got a healer, physical ranged, and BLU upgraded to raid level).

For context:
Tanks - 4
Healers - 3
Melee - 4
Ranged - 3
Casters - 3 (4 including BLU)
But... why should balancing those categories be more important than balancing the different roles in proportion to party requirements? DPS queues are bad enough as it is. Everyone would benefit from more people healing (except possibly existing healers, but they'd also benefit from new options) and adding an extra healing class would do that. Wanting to balance out those categories is just not a good excuse. (And neither is balancing the healers considering this is what we got out of it. The healers might be "balanced" but there are a lot of unhappy healers and there are signs of laziness all over the "balances").

(And while I'm on the topic, why is DRK not a magical tank? Why don't we need 2 more of those to even it out? If chemist is the next healer, by their logic we'd need another two non-magical healers, but I can't see that happening)