Do people in this game not comprehend the concept of shield healers?

[ForteNightshade]

The issue the devs obsession for accessibility balance and casualism. Means that ultimately everything is incredibly forgiving. Which in turn is the biggest issue healers have.

Incoming damage is so firgiving that Shields are rarely necessary.not just shields but gcds in general. (Cant tell you the last time my scholar used psychic) Hell most of the time it's so forgiving tanks don't even "need" cooldowns.

The other with Shields. For scholar at least is there all gcd. Which means if you don't 100% know the script of a fight they're useless as 95% of the time if you started casting Shields the instant you saw a bosses cast bar its already to late to shield the damage.

Tanks don't even need anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMgT..._channel=Cindy

Certainly makes you laugh all the more when someone insists healers should be healing and not DPSing. Dungeons are tuned so pathetically low, you literally don't need healers. Granted, this also highlights how comically powerful Nascent Flash and Clemency are.

In any case, this is why shield healing has especially been negatively impacted throughout Shadowbringers. In an effort to make everything accessible to even the worst of players, content just doesn't hit hard enough to warrant much (or sometimes any) shielding except at the Savage level. Healing as a whole this expansion has easily been in the worst state ever because of the dev team's obsession with accessibility above everything else.