Quote Originally Posted by GrimGale View Post
If that's the case then its a horrible solution.

"SOME healers tunnelvision, therefore we should make ALL healers pay for that."

They would never approach "ice" mages that way, they would not approach floor dragoons that way.
DPS get constant reworks to streamline and maximize their engagement. (Arguably I know, but at least they give them attention), while healers and maybe tanks see their kits dumbed down to their barebone buttons.

They want us focused on healing damage and yet they barely give us damage to heal.
That comment is not to be taken as official. That's just my own personal view formulated from my observations while playing with other healers. I don't believe SE wants to punish their healers, but they also don't want other players to suffer due to the negligence of the game's healers. Healers are responsible for contributing to the DPS pool, but they are not DPS jobs and SE cannot approach them the same way. They have a primary responsibility to cleanse, heal, and raise fallen players, and it is no doubt a challenging task to design healing in a way that allows them to do damage, but also be paying attention to their comrades. The decision to simplify DPS skills for healers was not to cause them misery, and we need to stop thinking that way. For that, I would like to withdraw that statement. It was not meant to make you feel punished.