Quote Originally Posted by Mapleine View Post
I like healing, I don't want to move to a GCD/hardcast focus. I'm not looking for WoW over here.

I just want to heal in more types of content and I want more DPS buttons. DPS get flashy finishers, primals, melee combos. We get to press Dosis/Broil/Glare/Malefic 180 times a fight. It's basically 95% of what I do.

Yoshi P's comments were very concerning and seemed clueless. This should be an easy question to field, clarify and understand and instead over the past few letters he's said:

"Healers shouldn't have to heal muchl"

"Healers shouldn't have to DPS at all if they don't want to!"

"Healers should do Ultimates if they want challenge!" (This is the most tedious, niche content in the genre IMO and an Ultimate has not been released in over two years).

To all of us players, this just looks like the director of the game has literally no real vision or experience with healing.

All of this after having to sit through a presentation about coddling single player gamers and revamping ARR's awful MSQ really rubbed me the wrong way. Especially when I'm sitting in an active end-game that has never improved in the 8 years since ARR. Iffy on the future of the game, will probably be playing less in general, especially since we sound like we're moving into filler story.
Honestly I'm still very bullish on the future of the game, and I feel many are, but I will agree on the line in the sand the devs have drawn on healers. There has never been a time to me when I felt the devs were outright ignoring player feedback. Plenty of times where I felt they got it wrong. Or took a long time to get it right. Or went another direction entirely. But never a time where I felt they heard player feedback and went "Yeah, no."

Except now. Healer gameplay is the one time where I feel the dev team truly feels they know better then the player base and are actively pushing back against it. Every other time they have relented, even if it took two years to do so, and never did they draw such a hard line in the sand about it. The thing is though I honestly feel they don't know that pushing that hard back isn't going to get the desired effect. This player base kinda has a track record of never backing down on something and just going with the flow. I doubt this is the first or last time where gonna have a contentious answer from Yoshi-P in a Q and A about healing.