6.0 Hopes and Fears?

[Laphicet]

Hopes: None, I have no hope in the healer design anymore after that remark about SCH in the last live letter. And in the rest of the class design as a whole in turn.

Fears: That healers will become even more braindead to play, that they'll take away dots and reduce DPS further in some attempt to encourage healing. The New Healer will just be a carbon copy of the rest with slightly different styling. They'll find a way to butcher the lore of the healing classes EVEN MORE SOMEHOW (probably just get rid of ASTs cards entirely, turn ALL of whm's spells into light, and delete the fairy at this rate). Basically healers will somehow become even more shit than they are now all in some vain hope of people "healing more" and getting more people to play the role, but it will just drive those few of us left dedicated to the role away from it.

Everything will be simplified, homogenized, made the same for the sake of "balance", while completely forgoing lore, class fantasy, and fun... and if it's not fun, why even bother?

[SturmChurro]

Hopes: None, I have no hope in the healer design anymore after that remark about SCH in the last live letter. And in the rest of the class design as a whole in turn.

Fears: That healers will become even more braindead to play, that they'll take away dots and reduce DPS further in some attempt to encourage healing. The New Healer will just be a carbon copy of the rest with slightly different styling. They'll find a way to butcher the lore of the healing classes EVEN MORE SOMEHOW (probably just get rid of ASTs cards entirely, turn ALL of whm's spells into light, and delete the fairy at this rate)..

..some vain hope of people "healing more" and getting more people to play the role, but it will just drive those few of us left dedicated to the role away from it.

Everything will be simplified, homogenized, made the same for the sake of "balance", while completely forgoing lore, class fantasy, and fun... and if it's not fun, why even bother?

I don't know what they expect.. "heal more"? Then maybe they need to adjust their encounter design. As far as general content goes, you barely need to heal EVER! I don't really understand the logic of them making very easy content, and then expecting healers to heal more, when there is nothing to heal! For the most part, the only time I ever really need to heal is when players are constantly failing mechanics.