Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
Personally, I do not think healers need any big overhaul at all. SE needs to stop being chickens and design encounters that actually mandate healing. If they do that, if they make it a struggle to keep people alive (as it should be), that obsession with healer DPS will die out on it's own. People are only obsessed with DPS because right now, the split is 20% healing 80% DPS. There is, literally, nothing else to do most of the fight than mash those DPS buttons until they beg for mercy.
While you aren't inherently wrong, it's wishful thinking at best SE will ever design encounters to hit hard enough to warrant the sheer amount of healing tools we have nowadays. Even Ultimate doesn't necessitate it. They simply won't go in that direction out of fear it'll make healing too difficult for inexperienced or downright incompetent players. Therefore, healers need to be a sort of hybrid role. And they need to have a solid DPS foundation that isn't simply Glare spam.