Incentivize healer queues with mount achievements like for tanks

[zeopower6]

As a healer main I don't really struggle with this but many people I know really have to deal with a lack of healers. I think the first step to filling the pool with healers is doing something like the tiger/lion/bear/panther mounts via achievements for healers. There are a lot of the animals already there too from PvP! (Swan, owl, and elk) If we get a 4th healer, that one could get like a flamingo or maybe an eagle.

I hope they can do this for the sake of DPS/tank queues for things like leveling and such. It would be great and would make for some cool mounts!

[Shougun]

Flamingo lol. I can see that being a love it or hate it mount .

A max tier elk sounds amazing though, something something like Lord of the Rings, which leads me into thinking of Studio Ghibli's Yakul and Forest Spirit.. Both of those would be epic :3.

On a personal level I think it would be interesting if every job has some sort of special unlock for playing it quite a bit, that healers getting a special mount can help but would be nice if that healers didn't feel the only reason to play healer is because of an extra mount lol (meaning to say hopefully the issues some healers feel are addressed in some way, either through a new job that does what they're looking for or general changes if necessary).

[Derby_Crash]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

[EaMett]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

Woah, calm down Satan. /s

[Anienai]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

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[Gemina]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

This.

To add, mounts are a poor incentive. Since you earn them once and you're done, they invite players who couldn't care less about the role or how they perform while playing one. You only need to look at your average pug tank. You know how rare it is to see a tank use Arm's Length and Reprisal with large pulls? These role skills are powerful mitigation tools, especially when used together, or one or the other along with a stronger CD. Those who care about tanking and performing well will know about and utilize skills like these, and just become acquainted with their entire toolkit altogether. Those just after the mount will at best just perform their minimum requirement for the duty.

It would be the exact same for healers, which I am willing to wager is the reason why they don't have a role specific mount. They have not stated this, but they also don't need to.

[Derio]

Maybe the addition of a new healer and the healer overhaul in 6.0 will make people play healer more. However people still play healers more than tanks according to SE data.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

Return ast gambling on healer...

[Xatsh]

Problem with healers atm is healing is just not fun, it is 1 button spam with off gcd. Honestly in Normal Raiding, Savage Raiding, and Dungeons it is just horrible. Mounts will make people spam dungeons to get the mounts so it would be a temporary fix, but it is a band-aid on severed limb.

Now that is my opinion. But most people I have in my guild are shifting away from playing healer as well. I my self playing healer this whole savage tier patch as my main, am not even going to consider playing a healer next raid tier.

[ForteNightshade]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

More or less this. I still enjoy White Mage to an extent, but I literally do almost nothing but spam Holy and Glare. That gets old pretty damn fast.