LL impressions pre-patchnotes: healers still garbo it seems

[Semirhage]

I've said it before: this is an echo of a problem healing roles have had for a long time, in a lot of games, that have seen solutions far more nuanced than the one we saw with 5.0. Healing is usually a pretty boring, thankless task for a lot of people. Some get into it for the roleplay, but you need a healing system that's FAR more interesting than Cure, Other Cure, Big Cure, Long Cure, Pre-Cure, and Party Cure to capture the interest of the people who hop in for the gameplay aspects. Some have solved it by making that interesting gameplay loop (though I haven't seen it too often. It's much easier to design an intuitive DPS). Some have solved it by making healing a thing you can do pretty well, but also easily/quickly set aside during the time it's not useful.

SE seems to have taken the dreaded third road: listen to DPS and Tank players b**tch and moan about "their" healers not being good little healbots because it's a healer's job to keep MY glorious rotation going so keep hacking their kits down until they learn "their place" as a Trust AI purely focused on me and my gameplay experience. I died once in a 24 man with 6 vuln stacks, why wasn't that healer healing meeeeeeeee. Take away that pesky Malefic because it's distracting them from carrying meeeee through the content.

Expect more of this to come.

[Kabooa]

SE seems to have taken the dreaded third road: listen to DPS and Tank players b**tch and moan about "their" healers not being good little healbots because it's a healer's job to keep MY glorious rotation going so keep hacking their kits down until they learn "their place" as a Trust AI purely focused on me and my gameplay experience. I died once in a 24 man with 6 vuln stacks, why wasn't that healer healing meeeeeeeee. Take away that pesky Malefic because it's distracting them from carrying meeeee through the content.

Nothing says credible like looking at the one or two posts created per patch about how one person screwed it up and using that to generalize a population.

[Semirhage]

Nothing says credible like looking at the one or two posts created per patch about how one person screwed it up and using that to generalize a population.

Yeah, "all DPS and Tanks are like this" is exactly what I said. Imagine looking at the one or two posts created per patch about one screwup and using it to guide your healer design for an entire expansion.