How are healers fairing right now?

[Lodi]

Still boring and ignored by the devs. I guess we also got some tweaked numbers.

[Alistaire]

People still play healers, WHM mainly, if only for the lack of roulette queues. God knows why though as we spend most of our time being criticised for letting over zealous tanks die.

Yeah those roulette queues... all those people that said things would return to "tank in need" as it used to be 99% of the time...well it's not quite as bad as when 5.0 hit and it was healer 99% of the time, but it's definitely still healer a lot of the time.

[Brandedblade]

No where near as bad as the forums make them out to be, especially after the buffs AST got and SCH getting Energy Drain back so they have some semblance of a gameplay loop (and an angle for optimizing)

[LalafellDown]

SCH is boring, WHM is suppah fun.

[InfiniDragon]

Yeah those roulette queues... all those people that said things would return to "tank in need" as it used to be 99% of the time...well it's not quite as bad as when 5.0 hit and it was healer 99% of the time, but it's definitely still healer a lot of the time.

Not sure which server you're on, but Ultros is firmly back to "laughs in tank" queues for most roulettes though.

I get instant on tank and have to wait 3-5 minutes when I try to go AST. Not a DPS queue certainly but not instant.

[Billythepancake]

Not sure which server you're on, but Ultros is firmly back to "laughs in tank" queues for most roulettes though.

I get instant on tank and have to wait 3-5 minutes when I try to go AST. Not a DPS queue certainly but not instant.

I have the opposite on Crystal. Even when it's tank in need,healer will pop instant while tanks have to wait 3-5 minutes.

[CrimsonGunner]

you basically either start rooting for your party to suck so you can have some action or spam glare/malefic/broil the entire run.
MSQ/dungeons/trials/normal raid is all boring to do as a healer(especially MSQ solo duties which you have nothing to heal and nothing to do rather then press 1 all the time) unless your party eat every shit they run across so you can use your healing part of the kit.

No where near as bad as the forums make them out to be, especially after the buffs AST got and SCH getting Energy Drain back so they have some semblance of a gameplay loop (and an angle for optimizing)

oh the lies we tell ourselves to believe its all fine when everything goes in flames.

[Brandedblade]

you basically either start rooting for your party to suck so you can have some action or spam glare/malefic/broil the entire run.
MSQ/dungeons/trials/normal raid is all boring to do as a healer(especially MSQ solo duties which you have nothing to heal and nothing to do rather then press 1 all the time) unless your party eat every shit they run across so you can use your healing part of the kit.



oh the lies we tell ourselves to believe its all fine when everything goes in flames.

I distinctly recall pressing more then two buttons when I did my roulettes yesterday. But that's just me. MB that's true with WHM, but SCH at least has energy Drain and ruin II to play with and AST has its cards. And before you say "but what about stuff before that level" I'll just have to point out that's not just a healer only problem.

[CrimsonGunner]

I distinctly recall pressing more then two buttons when I did my roulettes yesterday. But that's just me. MB that's true with WHM, but SCH at least has energy Drain and ruin II to play with and AST has its cards. And before you say "but what about stuff before that level" I'll just have to point out that's not just a healer only problem.

yes AST has his "cards"...
then who else has only one button to press at your so much claim that its not a healer only problem a lower level?

[PondHollow]

Even with Energy Drain back, 70-80% of scholar actions in dungeons will be 4-5 buttons (I checked on FFlogs), and there are no interesting tricks to look forward to. It's much worse in trials. Fairly boring.

It's better if you mainly play savage *progression*.