Openly admitting to ignoring the players

[Mortex]

These people were not necessarily wrong...Aside from the AST sect changes which some people may not like, every other changes announced for healers are improvements.

Yes but it’s only because yoshi and his team were the ones too make these things a problem in the first place. You don’t thank the exterminator for killing some of the rats when he was the one releasing them in the first place. All these healer “changes” were sorely needed and they still don’t fix the over arching problem healer have in this game, that the fight design forces for almost all content massive downtime’s in healing so you stand there with 2 buttons to press until a weak aoe comes that you can heal with ogcd anyway and then afterwards it back too 1 and 2 button spamming. And that the future for the entire healer class for another 2 years.

[Garnix]

And that the future for the entire healer class for another 2 years.

That's very optimistic. I think it is the future for at least 6 years. In 3 expansions from now, they will want to add a new healer and will wonder how to balance the amount of shield and pure healers if there are 5 healers, so they will go back to the drawing board for that.

[ItMe]

That's very optimistic. I think it is the future for at least 6 years. In 3 expansions from now, they will want to add a new healer and will wonder how to balance the amount of shield and pure healers if there are 5 healers, so they will go back to the drawing board for that.

They have also expressed that there will come a time when they have to slow down and then stop adding new jobs.
Who knows, maybe the 4 healers we have will be all the healers we get. Based on the way he's talked about it there are already rumblings and rumors that 7.0 will only add one new job.

We can't just get more jobs forever, and they might not add a 5th one if their drawing board doesn't look promising or if they don't feel like they'd also be able to add a 6th healer further down the line to balance things out.

But yeah, who knows what this game will look like in 6 years.

[ToodlesElNoodles]

My hope for last things to add:

1) A melee-centric healer (maybe Green Mage or Geomancer?)

2) A dedicated DoT caster. (Oracle/Omnyoji/Time Mage?)

3) Maybe one more ranged DPS. (BST with a limited side content?)

[Aword3213]

My hope for last things to add:

1) A melee-centric healer (maybe Green Mage or Geomancer?)

2) A dedicated DoT caster. (Oracle/Omnyoji/Time Mage?)

3) Maybe one more ranged DPS. (BST with a limited side content?)

Melee healer might never happen due to raid designs.

when 8 people are targeted by unavoidable aoes, you will have to push 1 melee out in order to function. Melee dps will stay no doubt. MT should not move. You are going to have war with ST for that 1 spot

Despite that, I looking forward to see it happen. Sounds interesting to me