Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Ixon]

Yes and no and I think I can finally voice properly WHY.

Healer isn't engaging because all healer has is healing. No buffs outside of bland clones with AST and Chain Strat. This would be ok if healing in fights, if fight design let the healer part be engaging. They do not, have not and will not so long as SE wants it to be accessible.

That's fine... but you need to give us something else instead. Either make healing engaging in content or redesign the kits so we have something else to engage us.

So yes, actually. Healing isn't fun because it isn't engaging because they made it unengaging on the healing parts of a fight and didn't give us something else to replace it.

I completely agree.

Here in EW we have two major conflicting issues as to how the healers are now. The first is SE has accepted that healers are going to DPS during a fight, however to not have the issue that existed in HW, healers have gutted DPS kits. The second issue is due to the power creep of tanks and healers getting stronger and better tools, healers have not only less to heal, but almost zero reason to GCD heal. These two things have led to healers feeling the most boring that they have ever felt. In my mind, I believe that the most feasible solution is to reduce/combine healer abilities while also reducing tank sustainability, to have healers feel more like healers, while also filling in that space with more DPS options for healers to alleviate their boredom. The only thing we have to keep in mind as players when making suggestions is the direction the game is going. SE does not want a repeat of HW, so we can't go back that far, and I assume they still want to have the game resemble SOME form of the trinity, even though it hardly exists. I would hope this could be something in 6.1, as I feel there is more than enough data to support this change, but I believe Yoshi-P stated that they might be hesitant to make major changes till after the first Ultimate. I don't agree with that, but I believe that is what they are going to do.