Healer design is still terrible and I'm tired of apologizing for it.

[ASkellington]

I disagree, if you guys want to see more stuff happen to healer kits, then they need to make it so that it "CANT" be optimized. Optimization is the death of the healer class because you are basically playing a dps, bisewell just play dps by that point if you have to do the same work. If they turn healer into a 123 fast blade riot blade halone combo then sure I'll play it but if they turn it into some 10-15 button opener nonsense that savage raiders want to use to optimize dps that has multiple variations depending on fight etc then I will quite literally just stop healing since its not worth it.

No one here is asking for a 15 button opener.

Also no, the death of a healer class isn't optimization. You're supposed to optimize your healing. You're supposed to know how strong every one of your heals are and use that knowledge to make sure you don't run out of mana and that you have CDs for a true emergency.

The death of healing in this game is that we don't really need to manage our mana or cool downs. Half our abilities cost 0 and they aren't balanced by having 0 cost with long cool downs. This means that piety is a joke of a stat. And it also means we can use the same oGCDs for the same situations making our very strong healing tools redundant.

Why use Celestial Intersection on a Tank Buster when Exaltation is up? Why use Collective Unconciousness when Celestial Opposition is up? Why use Neutral Sect when you don't need the extra healing or shielding at all? Etc. Etc.

"But things can go south." To which I say: "you can't heal through stupid".

[SenzorialBoundries]

No one here is asking for a 15 button opener.

Also no, the death of a healer class isn't optimization. You're supposed to optimize your healing. You're supposed to know how strong every one of your heals are and use that knowledge to make sure you don't run out of mana and that you have CDs for a true emergency.

The death of healing in this game is that we don't really need to manage our mana or cool downs. Half our abilities cost 0 and they aren't balanced by having 0 cost with long cool downs. This means that piety is a joke of a stat. And it also means we can use the same oGCDs for the same situations making our very strong healing tools redundant.

Why use Celestial Intersection on a Tank Buster when Exaltation is up? Why use Collective Unconciousness when Celestial Opposition is up? Why use Neutral Sect when you don't need the extra healing or shielding at all? Etc. Etc.

"But things can go south." To which I say: "you can't heal through stupid".

Somewhat, the reason of for the problem you describe is not necessarily the healers themself but rather how heavily scripted encounters are designed.

[ASkellington]

Somewhat, the reason of for the problem you describe is not necessarily the healers themself but rather how heavily scripted encounters are designed.

I feel we'd have a better time getting the devs to fix the healer's kits themselves than ask the devs to fix encounter design.