Incentivize healer queues with mount achievements like for tanks

[wereotter]

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.

More likely healers don't have mounts because, until this expansion there was rarely a shortage of them. Now that they introduced a fourth tanking job with a rotation that's, honestly, more interesting than tanking jobs have historically been, and now that they made stance dancing go away for tanks, people have been more interested in playing the job. But before that, Square was doing anything it could think of to get people to just play tank at all. If healers do indeed get an overhaul next expansion with another job option, the shortage of healers in the wild will likely go away, and the need to provide incentive to play the role will go away with it.

Also to the original point, mounts don't really do much to incentivize people to play the role, just look at how often PF groups go up to farm an easy fight with 8 tanks just so people can get their mounts... would be the same thing if they added healer mounts.

[Limonia]

A mount as a reward for playing healers would only invite more zero DPS Cure 1 spam healers. So I'm not really sure I want this. Maybe when they rework healers in a way that doesn't motivate them to just stand there and press their first healing spell.

[Luna-M]

Cure 1 spam to bait free Cure 2 is something even seasoned WHMs does though?

[Absurdity]

Cure 1 spam to bait free Cure 2 is something even seasoned WHMs does though?

Which just goes to show that playing for a long time does not equal actual job knowledge. Of course there are "veteran" healers who still haven't gotten past the "0 dps cure 1 spam bot"-phase because they could never be bothered to improve.

Adding a mount to healers will most likely just create more of those, since their objective isn't to actually become decent healers, they just want to get their mount and never touch those jobs again afterwards.

[PondHollow]

Cure 1 spam to bait free Cure 2 is something even seasoned WHMs does though?

Only those who have given zero thought to what they are doing. It is an obvious trap.

[Imakun]

I doubt any mount would bring me back to the healer role any time soon.
I was a full time healer in SB, AST being my main, and I just can't bring myself to play it anymore. I hate what they did to my favorite job, and even WHM and especially SCH feel so empty now. It's really disheartening.

[Aluja89]

Or, I dunno.

Make healers and tanks more fun to play? Give them a couple more jobs where you have variety instead of clones.

Nah, I'm wrong. SE knows better.

[Luna-M]

Which just goes to show that playing for a long time does not equal actual job knowledge. Of course there are "veteran" healers who still haven't gotten past the "0 dps cure 1 spam bot"-phase because they could never be bothered to improve.

Adding a mount to healers will most likely just create more of those, since their objective isn't to actually become decent healers, they just want to get their mount and never touch those jobs again afterwards.

Only those who have given zero thought to what they are doing. It is an obvious trap.

I see. I'm not a hardcore healer (usually go healer for my tome capping) but I guess it to much to expect to read job abilities and traits.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

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.

Well, there is that Unicorn.

[Granyala]

Cure 1 spam to bait free Cure 2 is something even seasoned WHMs does though?

Haven't done that since ARR. Oo

We are mana gods, I do not care about the cost of a heal.

@topic: I'm with the crows that says "make heal-DPS" actually interesting. Make mobs (esp in normal content) not hit like wet noodles with self esteem issues and give us more than 1 button to mash 75% of the time.