Quote Originally Posted by Kleeya View Post
what.
The reason people blame the devs for the dps-focused mentality of the playerbase is because the devs have never given us anything else to try for.

As a healer what is my reward for standing around and doing nothing? How about horribly overhealing? How about emote spam? None of these get me anything. Know what gets me a real reward? Dpsing.

It's the same in your other examples - there is no advantage to losing a Balance for a Bole on the old AST card system or for sitting in tank stance, those things didn't reward you. The only real reward is clearing the instance so you can do more things to get more exp/tomes/gear/whatever. Even if you take the tangible game rewards like currency out of the equation doing an instance quicker let's you (as a player) do more things and gain more experience on your job.

Don't get me wrong, as someone who's played healers for years I would love if I had an actual need to focus on my healing in casual content. Give me dungeons where I'm on the edge of my seat and small mistakes can actually cost the group a full wipe. That would make people focus less on dps as a healer for sure!

The issue would then become that many people... just wouldn't be able to heal. If you're bad at healing now increasing the amount you need to heal isn't going to suddenly mean you're good at healing (although it might cut down on your overheal) it'll just mean that you won't be able to clear a larger portion of the available content.

If you can think of a way for the devs to force me to focus on keeping a party alive in casual content without also making it impossible for most princess uwu pure healers who don't understand their buttons to complete I'm all ears, SE won't risk alienating those people though.

As for the topic of this thread... lmao. Just lmao.

I'm very happy to call out people on the high end when they're being idiots and expecting too much, I love that thats already happened in this thread about one of the most unironically toxic streamers out there, but to act as if the damage done to this community by elitism is in any way comparable to the damage done by militant casuals is to just put your blinders on and stick your head in the sand.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen actual degrading toxicity ingame meant to demean someone for their poor performance, but I would be at a total loss if I tried to tally up the instances of toxic casuals acting entitled to their bad play as if it didn't negatively impact 3/7/23 other people. It's nearly constant. It permeates many novice networks and there's always a decent chance you'll see it for just some requests like asking for a healer to dps or for another player to AoE on trash packs. I'd repeat things I've been called when asking for those very things but I don't need to get banned from the forums right now.