We're basically where MNK was an expansion or two ago. In that they've acknowledged this issues, are aware of the complaints and think they're addressing them but have yet to do so successful.

In saying that, what they've said is not entirely off the mark, I don't think they've done enough to achieve what they want to achieve, unless incoming damage in 6.0 is that significant. Because bear in mind our healing toolkits for 6.0 are powerful and some of the non-healer jobs are getting better healing and mitigation options. In a way it's frustrating because they're willing to strip us of our DPS moves but willing to give other jobs the ability to help out with healing and mitigation.

I am hoping that the stat squish has meant they've been able to tweak things in our favour and alleviate much of the pain. It feels like the right opportunity to do it and Yoshi P seems to acknowledge the iLevel disparity problem. But I am not getting my hopes up too much, because like in the MNK scenario, they took more missteps and their healer track record hasn't been great, we can remember Yoshi P being proud of the ShB MNK changes to urge people to look forward to them to find MNK's hated it. But it's only now that it looks like they might have made MNK good.

Yet...I am actually kinda relieved just to hear them actually talk about this. Sure it's not the answers I want, but I can now direct my feedback more constructively. We have been coming at this without knowing the devs' stance and us asking continuously for it to be addressed, like with healer questions being ignored in Q&A's, sure some of the Q&A's weren't appropriate places for it, but with them keep coming up and being upvoted should have suggested some communication is needed even if it's not in the Q&A's. And I think the lack of communication from a team who normally are good for communication felt pretty damning that they don't care about the situation or are just trying to ignore it.

So to know that they care but miss the mark is a better position than where we were. And I've been saying SGE looks like a step in the right direction (but not necessarily where we want to be) and from the interviews that seems intentional. And I think AST is too.

For all my complaints about how they're doing this all backwards, I am feeling the "doom and gloom" and cynicism about healers less. I just hope we're now in a position to start seeing more healer attention.

I realise the solutions I've been pushing for is unlikely to be taken, so there is that disappointment, but as I've communicated in other threads, it's something I can compromise on if the healer experience is fun and engaging, so I ought not get salty they're opting for a different direction, but of course can be salty if they don't achieve it.