Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
I agree there is a gate, but it isn't the devs that don't allow further access. Want to guess who is actually doing that? I'll give you a hint. It also isn't you if you think that is where I was going.

For most healers, their journey towards becoming more experienced and advanced ends somewhere in casual content. Healing is easy until it isn't, and each healer has to get past a discouraging experience if they are going to progress. That bad experience is the afore mentioned gate, and it is entirely up to the healer confronted by it to step through it. This gate is not locked. There are no guards. There is no barbed wire. It's the mind of the healer that places those things there.

If you want to raise the skill floor, which in turn will allow the ceiling to also be raised, you have to encourage the game's healers to push past the gates they set up in their own minds. The devs do try and do this, but a lot of assistance is needed from the playerbase and is relied upon. There are TONS of videos out there on how to improve as DPS and Tanks. Content on how to be a better healer? Not as much. Not even close.
Also, sadly to be a better healer requires you at the bare minimum to have a tank that is level 80, because part of healer problems come from not understanding when you are underperforming and when the tank is under performing. That alone causes a lot of problems.