Are you the loud minority? (Healer feedback)

[HyoMinPark]

I'm fairly convinced the devs balanced healers based on popularity.

In their eyes WHM is great because people play it. Therefore they assume it must be fun. In reality, it's just that it's slightly more fun than juggling their poorly designed card or pet system, but still in an awful state.

AST and SCH are always less popular, but they have no clue how to design healers so they just receive endless reworks that make them worse or useless tweaks.

Now AST is more button bloated than ever and SCH's pet is still just oGCD's but clunkier that you snack on periodically, so we'll probably see even more full reworks for AST and nonsense SCH tweaks in upcoming patches while WHM remains completely ignored, before being nerfed again in 7.0 because it was the most popular healer all expansion so is clearly "too good".

With regards to WHM, I’m not sure if the developers just ignore it because “well it’s WHM and people will play it anyways because Final Fantasy Staple/it’s Baby’s First Healer” or if they are just that caught up in their design philosophy of keeping it as the “pure, burst healer” that they won’t allow it to be anything else. It never fails every expansion to see it fall behind AST in terms of performance—even if it surpasses AST in popularity. But, then again, the dev team doesn’t have a designated “healer main” on it; and they also seem to neglect inviting actual healer mains to important events like expansion media tours to test out builds and provide feedback. I’m not really surprised anymore that WHM remains the same as ever—but I can’t tell how much of that is just me being jaded in general.

[RinaShinomiya]

or if they are just that caught up in their design philosophy of keeping it as the “pure, burst healer” that they won’t allow it to be anything else

i'd say its 100% their design philosophy getting in the way. A few years ago when asked why none of the complaints about Living Dead are being addressed YoshiP basically just said that it wouldn't with the job fantasy if the ability was any other way. Which is a different can of worms considering what they did to SCH and AST in 5.0 but whatever.

They definitely should've at least invited Momo to Mediatour though and I'm baffled he wasn't invited AGAIN.