Quote Originally Posted by AziraSyuren View Post
That's because they are, lmao

As much as the forums would lead you to believe otherwise, most healer (and tank, and dps) mains care more about the fantasy then the gameplay. They chronically overheal without putting much thought into it and sometimes do reasonably competent damage.

Even if you look at the forums, you get so many contradictory ideas on what healer mains want that it's impossible to actually listen to them.

To be perfectly honest, no other role in the game is less unified on what they want it to be.

It's frustrating that they don't make healers any better, but it makes sense that they don't listen to the forums when they clearly have no idea what they want.
Okay, so what if I only cared about the fantasy of tanks?
I don't want any of those combos, too complicated. No dps buffs either, too complicated and I'm only here for the tank fantasy. Tanks should tank!
So what I want now is that we only have lots of the mitigation tools we have now and one spammable melee attack and..hmm.. how about it has a combo step 2 but with a 25s cooldown?
But I'm a tank so I don't really want to use that, instead I also want a spammable block that blocks 5% incoming damage on the GCD.
Because I only care about the fantasy, I want to be a tanky tank that tanks. And I want the entire role to be designed that it enforces this playstyle on everyone. No, people who want to be more engaged on tank don't get their 123 combo and damageing oGCDs and burst windows back. They can't have their fun while I have my fun, I want everyone to have my fun.

This is what "don't give healers more deeps buttons because that Sylphie over there might get offeneded" boils down to.
Tanks would grab their torches, pitchforks and riot and rightfully so and as someone who has listed WAR as their main, I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate getting treated that way.
You can satisfy both crowds at the same time but they don't want to. Sylphies get their fun 99% of the time, the rest just has to do Ultimate.