Openly admitting to ignoring the players

[Deceptus]

I also don't trust their "Healers split". They gave up the idea for M/O tanks but somehow felt It would work here ?
the PF going to be either "we need the heal"=2 pure or "we need both"=1 of each ; and it's probably end with "moar dps"=2 barrierSGE

Honestly you shouldn't trust the healer split.

1) They attempted it with tanks and it has largely failed. They said in Shadowbringers early media they wanted dedicated Tank / Off Tank roles and that hasn't materialized at all.

2) They're not doubling down on the shield / regen dichotomy. Scholars have the same amount of regens as they do shields. Whm's have a beefy shield that's getting an additional charge in Divine Benision. ASTs have the biggest possible shield pre-pull right now. The shown skills for Sage had 4 regens and 2 shields.

[ItMe]

1) They attempted it with tanks and it has largely failed. They said in Shadowbringers early media they wanted dedicated Tank / Off Tank roles and that hasn't materialized at all.

Did they?
Do you have a source for that?
I thought I remembered them talking about how they wanted to abolish that dichotomy.

[Liam_Harper]

I thought I remembered them talking about how they wanted to abolish that dichotomy.

Exactly, it was a bad idea so they abolished it. They saw it was better that players bring whatever combination of tanks they enjoy, instead of "sorry, we need a MT and your class is an OT". Now for some reason they're repeating that old mistake with healers. If the party has a Sage, they want SCH to be locked out. If the party has an AST, they want WHM to be locked out. And for what? They haven't even created a distinctive pure/shield playstyle. "Barrier" is just a regular pure healer with a handful of shields. It makes no sense.

[Semirhage]

Exactly, it was a bad idea so they abolished it. They saw it was better that players bring whatever combination of tanks they enjoy, instead of "sorry, we need a MT and your class is an OT". Now for some reason they're repeating that old mistake with healers. If the party has a Sage, they want SCH to be locked out. If the party has an AST, they want WHM to be locked out. And for what? They haven't even created a distinctive pure/shield playstyle. "Barrier" is just a regular pure healer with a handful of shields. It makes no sense.

"The WHM would be doing all the healing while the SCH would DPS away".

I can't say for certain that not a single member of the dev team plays healers beyond the skill level of a nervous Cure spamming sprout. But I can say that the way Yoshida talks about how healers play in live letters is the same way Cure spammers on the forums/Reddit talk about oGCD-healers "not healing": because they don't understand how playing a healer actually works.