Developers : Healer design mentality needs to change

[QooEr]

I think the main issue with people mentioning class balance is that it's braindead easy to balance healers right now. Here, let me give you an example.

Remove all attack skills on all jobs, replace them with 1 single button with varying potency depending on the job:
Healer: 600 potency
Tanks: 600 potency
Ranged dps: 1000 potency
Casters: 1100 potency
Melee dps: 1150 potency

There, I just balanced all jobs numberswise, enjoy spamming 1 button

my point is raiders dont want this either, so i dont get the narrative that the current state of things is because of them. if i only resub to this game to play the combat content for hours on end i want those hours to be actually entertaining beyond week 1 prog. I dont want to press malefic for 9 hours a week. nearly nobody is really content with how healers play presently, including (or perhaps especially) raiders

[Dogempire]

my point is raiders dont want this either, so i dont get the narrative that the current state of things is because of them. if i only resub to this game to play the combat content for hours on end i want those hours to be actually entertaining beyond week 1 prog. I dont want to press malefic for 9 hours a week. nearly nobody is really content with how healers play presently, including (or perhaps especially) raiders

I don't blame raiders for it, I just think that it's not surprising that dpswise healers are pretty balanced since all healers follow the 1 dot 1 damage dps rotation.

I'd rather say the blame lies with SE's short-sightedness in not seeing that gutting job complexity to encourage new players to try a healer just pushes away the more experienced healers and makes them look for fulfilment in other roles.