Has anyone quit healing?

[NobleWinter]

I always hope for some gigantic change to healers mid expansion and I know realistically that's a long shot in the dark but waiting for a new expansion, every expansion, to enjoy your favorite class is not very enjoyable to put it mildly. I started the game as a WHM during ARR and I can't say the job has ever gotten back to how fun it was then for me. Maybe being new made it more exciting back then but I wanna be excited for the healer changes at least once.

[Truen]

Not only have I quit healing, but I just canceled my script. I just can't force myself to log in anymore and cast Broil 10,000 times a week any longer. I'll poke around and hope for an overhaul, but until then I'm bored still with the game and am in search of greener pastures.

[Allegor]

WHM actually feels better now, but my interest in the other 2 have decreased dramatically, specially AST.

[NobleWinter]

I'm a dork so I was in the middle of working when I started day dreaming about the meeting where someone in the Class Design Team pitched their idea for Shadowbringers and said, "You know those changes for the fairy responsiveness we made on SCH. What if... we went in the complete opposite direction for the new release? Now hear me out: first we delete Selene as an option. No one will notice she's gone if we add a new Capstone Skill to summon Seraph at level 80 for 20 seconds every 2 minutes. To make sure people are focused on bringing her out we'll remove all the DPS tools that characterize Scholar like Bane, Miamsa, Energy Drain, and the Quickened Aetherflow Trait too. We'll throw in the ability to force a Crit and give the fairy a useless AoE heal to make the Fey Gauge seem almost meaningful. I think for the sake of balance fairy abilities should Ghost regularly to add an element of suspense and probably be on the SCH GCD too. Players are gonna love it!"

I pictured applause and a standing ovation and laughed so hard I'm sure my co-worker think I'm retarded. I just don't understand how you can make healers less fun and rewarding to level and make us pay 60$ plus a monthly subscription to suffer through it.

[Yuella]

I havent quit healing because I can't stand playing DPS with their complicated DPS rotation. I play tank more than DPS but I prefer healing because I have tanking anxiety

[BroodingFicus]

Still healing but I won't deny being bored to tears anytime anything is going smoothly. I essentially hope for people to screw up utterly so I have something to do or play little side games with my tank like 'Hey, lets see if just your HoTs can heal me this next pull'. For the curious, they could. Otherwise in even the most recent dungeon I'm just putting on a HoT or using Assize to heal boss encounters without ever fearing someone will die unless they whiff a mechanic. Unfortunately that leaves me spamming one button for the whole 15-20 minute run. Raids are a bit better...but mostly because they present more of an opportunity for things to go to hell in a hand basket. I think when we've reached the point that I get genuinely excited about my co-healer dcing mid fight of a 24-man raid, there are some things that should be looked at.

[Mortex]

WHM feels better than ever, but then they made other healers more like WHM which feels silly. Why make other healers like WHM? If they wanted to play like WHM, they could just play WHM.

To be fair it wasn’t hard to improve on the Stormblood mess we had and the lily system. It’s like having a cherry on top of a pile of poop

[Mortex]

Like if I had the possibility to change stuff I would keep only one thing from whm and that would be the new lily system and make them ogcd and give him a instant dmg spell so you can weave better. Give sch old fairy back and maybe make i so that the closer the fairy is to the target embrace heals more so you have a lot of fairy micromanagement. Give astro his old cards back and rework the shitty ones and if you use a card give him % mana back. And give use more dmg spells so we don’t fall asleep in downtime’s

[Shalan]

I haven't just stop healing, I've just about stopped playing entirely. I have a 50-60 hr workweek as a manual laborer so I'm generally too exhausted for things like Ultimate/Savage. Instead, most of my time in the game is from more casual elements; standard dungeon runs and the occasional EX are my bread and butter. While such content has always been fairly easy the classes (especially AST) were really fun for me to play, but since ShB dropped I barely find *any* entertainment as the classes themselves no longer feel as fun to play. I feel like they're balancing the role around Savage/Ultimate levels of healing, something which I've never seen nor needed.

Everything feels so dumbed down, I'm no longer juggling Royal Road, Spread, Minor Arcana on top of my healing. I'm not multitasking with my fairy while doing my standard Scholarly activities. I like some of the new AST healing abilities, but I can't always justify having to use them. I feel like a discount WHM at times instead of having my own separate class identity. Having to pray for a poor group just to get some entertainment is incredibly demoralizing. So I've just about left.

I barely play the game now, I log in maybe once or twice a week. Before where I'd play even after an exhausting day of work for at least a couple roulette's every single day, I now deeply consider ending my sub until at least the next patch. Maybe even till more news about the next expansion.

And now I can't even be sure if that news would be enough to bring me back.

[Renka777]

I posted multiple time here saying thing like "i quit ast,i go dps blablabla" months ago

But seriously,I don't think any real healer main can actually quit healing for good

I did e5s-e8s as dps for the first time since the 5.2 patch came out and today i can say for sure that i miss healing A LOT,i'm currently in static and dispite the fact that its doing good i still feel like i'm definitily not in the role where i should be so i'm not super happy about it right now

I'm thinking about going back to healing in 5.4 or next extension ,maybe not as ast but most likely whm/sch,i'll see