Has anyone quit healing?

[Mapleine]

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.

I actually love most of the combat design. I've agreed for years with the idea of removing the punishments and rigidity from MMO combat it and making the game revolve more around the fight so I will be a little off the mark from some of the naysayers.

I also think the greater community is wrong a fair bit as well but this is on the team to be able to sift good feedback from bad, this is a nessecary skill to have nowadays. Expedience being treated like a meme alone kinda sums this up, Expeidence was clearly going to be an insanely good skill from day one.

For me, while this is a big problem, and it has to be fixed a lot of this was amplified by the director acting like a brat.

It's like, four jobs worth of gameplay gameplay is pushing one static ability 97% of a fight and you're talking down to us and treating us like we're crazy. Genuinely felt like I was watching a World of Warcraft Q&A, which is the last thing in the world I am after.

E. Prognosis and especially E. Diagnosis are my two least useful heals next to Pepsis.

E. Diagnosis is great for getting three Toxikon stacks instantly from transition raidbusters!

Other than that...