General Community Resistant to Healer Damage?

[Averax]

I've wondered this myself for ages. After all nobody complained in HW or SB about healers doing damage or doing buffs/debuffs when they didn't need to heal (which was and still is around 70% of the time)
Maybe the wow refugees trying to bring their style of healing over? i haven't played that so idk, but I've heard damage is more random there.

Props to you mate, you got balls

People complained a lot about healers dpsing pre-stormblood, cleric stance made it a lot more unforgiving because you couldn't just go rapidly back and forth between damage and healing. It lead to a lot of oops moments because a healer would switch into cleric stance, something bad would happen, and they couldn't deal with it for 5 seconds.

The problem healers currently face is that there is just not enough for them to do, outside of unavoidable damage. More and more mechanics are the mess up and die type of damage, so there's nothing for a healer to fix other than offer a rez and get straight back to dpsing. Healers are complaining about having to dps because that's pretty much all they do.

[technole]

People complained a lot about healers dpsing pre-stormblood, cleric stance made it a lot more unforgiving because you couldn't just go rapidly back and forth between damage and healing. It lead to a lot of oops moments because a healer would switch into cleric stance, something bad would happen, and they couldn't deal with it for 5 seconds.

The problem healers currently face is that there is just not enough for them to do, outside of unavoidable damage. More and more mechanics are the mess up and die type of damage, so there's nothing for a healer to fix other than offer a rez and get straight back to dpsing. Healers are complaining about having to dps because that's pretty much all they do.

It's basically the damage/healer curve I mentioned previously, it has to go up a bit in both savage and casual content to really cut the amount of healer DPS to keep pace with the additional one-button healing available. It gets to the point where WHM just burns lilies as overheal just to get to misery damage.

Now the other side of the token where tank aggro is stupid easy, unless you are asleep at the wheel. Along with bosses no longer hitting tanks for critical damage in savage or ultimate, which also cuts down the utility of skills like healer regen, and SCH fairy tether. You are just better off using one-button Tetra/Excog to save on GCD single heals.

The battle team dismantled healing requirements with so many little cuts here and there.