The State of Homogenization: A New (Healer) Player's Perspective

[TaoTech]

It’s unfortunate you didn’t get to experience healing pre-Shb. Healing used to be so fun, AST was amazing, we had all the cards and time magic and 2 sects. SCH actually had 2 diff fairies entirely, not just in looks. More dps, just far more interesting all over. They have really gutted healers bad and healer community has been screaming on deaf ears for years to no avail. Devs have ignored them entirely and continue to butcher the jobs and the game to the point it’s not fun or interesting to even new people. Are they too dumb to realize they are killing the game? Do they just not care and only care about the money? We don’t know? But as long-term players SO MANY of us share your frustration.

[Jeeqbit]

Healing used to be so fun, AST was amazing, we had all the cards and time magic and 2 sects. SCH actually had 2 diff fairies entirely, not just in looks.

Healing was the same (it was spam 1 button for damage except on SCH), most of the AST cards were useless or sub-optimal so you were shuffling them like you do now when the symbol is wrong, the choice of fairy was mostly pointless because you just choose the best one.

[SieyaM]

Healing was the same (it was spam 1 button for damage except on SCH), most of the AST cards were useless or sub-optimal so you were shuffling them like you do now when the symbol is wrong, the choice of fairy was mostly pointless because you just choose the best one.

Selene's Fey Wind may have not been good but what I wouldn't give for an AoE esuna again.

[Allegor]

It’s unfortunate you didn’t get to experience healing pre-Shb. Healing used to be so fun, AST was amazing, we had all the cards and time magic and 2 sects. SCH actually had 2 diff fairies entirely, not just in looks. More dps, just far more interesting all over. They have really gutted healers bad and healer community has been screaming on deaf ears for years to no avail. Devs have ignored them entirely and continue to butcher the jobs and the game to the point it’s not fun or interesting to even new people. Are they too dumb to realize they are killing the game? Do they just not care and only care about the money? We don’t know? But as long-term players SO MANY of us share your frustration.

To put the situation in a nutshell, healers are designed to appeal to people who, for the most part, don't even want to play a healer in an attempt to drawing more people to the role, without realizing - or perhaps caring - that veteran healers, those who actually like to play healers, are simultaneously leaving - they're not expanding the healer population, just.... cycling through it?