Healers Exist for DPS fun only?

[NobleWinter]

This title made me think you meant that healers exist only to do dps becuase that's what makes healers fun. I thought it was a bold new take on how enjoyable our current dps kits are. I would have to say for the actual topic tho that all the roles were intended initially to be fun. You can see from the way the classes were designed in ARR that every role had some complexity. Even WHM had Stoneskin, Cleric Stance, and a lot of utility in fluid Aura plus actually had to be careful with managing MP and enmity. The delay on Benediction as their only instant heal said a lot about how high the expectations were for a skilled healer. You needed to be able to predict and time your cast for the majority of the fight and your only emergency skill still needed foresight to be effective. It was way more complex than what we have now where you can oGCD your way thru almost anything and never once look at your mp as WHM. The problem seems to be that over time the developers realized that high stakes roles like healing and tanking were inevitably going to cause wipes by unskilled players being terrible and instead of creating exhuastive tutorials and training missions for these roles they decided to lower the skill ceiling. Bad players are still bad one nerf after another tho and we ended up here with one dps button and a ton of redundant healing skills. As long as the focus is catering to terrible players instead of creating better players we're going to continue this downward spiral in design. Nowhere in the game is a tank swap ever explained. No healer missions require you to use Surecast, Swiftcast, or Rescue. Slidecasting is not only possible but required to optimize and also never acknowledged. Im still shocked we arent told to always be casting as a general rule. Sadly I only expect the skill ceiling to comtinue to fall.