Quote Originally Posted by Sqwall View Post

If SE keeps up this whole idea healers are DPS with healing skills....then you will start to see even more people leave healing roles for DPS roles. It's not worth the effort and frustration. I don't main heal....but I'm sure glad there are some out there that do.
I think the issue is SE is determined in its holy quest to make the game super casual, and upping the pressure on healers is simply too much for that super casual dream. For example when the vault came out, it was actually pretty challenging as a healer to keep up with (as most were not geared yet). I remember struggling a little with it, as you'd think a healer should feel in a normal RPG. I also remember when not being a healer, our healers wiping us fairly often in vault lol. I don't think SE will ever risk that type of experience as the norm in content going forward outside of ex and savage.

To be clear, I don't agree with that mindset. Content should be on some level a little challenging at the very least. I'm just speaking for the reasoning I believe SE does what they do.