Healers need an overhaul

[ty_taurus]

If the frothing irrational hatred for ACT (not harassment, but the existence of silent stat gathering somewhere in the game that doesn't involve them) on the forums lately is anything to go by, it's because the overwhelmingly catered-to toxic casual portion of the community can't just exist alongside a high skill ceiling. They *require* it pancaked to the floor; job mastery must NOT embarrass them even by implication, even in their own minds, even if nobody is accusing them of anything.

I just don't understand it. It's so far beyond what I am capable of comprehending as a human, like an alien language. I've heard arguments about wanting to keep some jobs as "brain dead" so they don't have to think about anything when doing their roulettes, but like... If they gave any of the healers a more engaging DPS rotation, and Susan over here is upset because she just wants to one-button-spam and not think about anything, then just do it.

News Alert: Any job can be brain dread if you just do your basic rotation and nothing else. So no, I don't' think we should have jobs where the skill ceiling is still brain dead because every job is brain dead if you want it to be. If you're someone interested in brain dead, you clearly don't care about being optimal anyway, so who gives a rats ass? How does no one understand this?

[Nethereal]

And I'm OK with that.

And this is why we can't have nice things.

I just don't understand it. It's so far beyond what I am capable of comprehending as a human, like an alien language. I've heard arguments about wanting to keep some jobs as "brain dead" so they don't have to think about anything when doing their roulettes, but like... If they gave any of the healers a more engaging DPS rotation, and Susan over here is upset because she just wants to one-button-spam and not think about anything, then just do it.

News Alert: Any job can be brain dread if you just do your basic rotation and nothing else. So no, I don't' think we should have jobs where the skill ceiling is still brain dead because every job is brain dead if you want it to be. If you're someone interested in brain dead, you clearly don't care about being optimal anyway, so who gives a rats ass? How does no one understand this?

It's the fact that everyone knows they're willing ignorant of the class that makes them not want to have the ability to press more than one button.
They already have enough problems with the imaginary big bad boogie men they make up and then project said boogie man onto anyone who even says/types their name, imagine if people could press more than 1 button and they were still only pressing 1 button.

Here's a blast from the past. It may not have been terribly interactive. The skills may not have affected one another too much. The design under a microscope may be lacking a LOT of the buffing, skill chaining, and FUN that healer classes in a lot of games have. But my God, look at the comparative variety of flippin' abilities you used back in Heavensward. The uninterrupted chain of eight back to back casts of Stone is an ANOMALY. Compared to how garbage healers are designed these days? I'd take even flawed design like that in a heartbeat.

Wow imagine being able to press more than 2 buttons. I miss the skills just not the days.