Healers need an overhaul

[LeonKeyh]

The joke here is that if you read through this thread, you'll find that different people want absolutely opposite overhauls. The changes some of the people here want will piss off some of the other people here: Some want a healer to need to do more heals and less outgoing damage, some want healers to have more buttons to DPS with (although it's not clear if they want more DPS or just more complication in delivering the same DPS), some want healers to have support buffs like a bards do, and so on.

So given that there isn't anything even remotely resembling a consensus on what's broken and how to fix it, it should surprise no one if SE ignores this thread.

The only consensus here is that people who are just fine with healers as they are ... well, read the thread, you'll see. That's the one opinion that must be not be heard: that healers do not need an overhaul.

No, that's not the case at all. Either one of the groups of players that want an overhaul is bigger alone than the people who don't want it. If you split into people who want an overhaul vs people who don't, it's probably AT LEAST 80% for and 20% against. I also guarantee that those people aren't "against" an other solution as long as there's improvement. You're splitting up the people against you into as many different subgroups as possible to make your group the plurality, but even that won't work.

There are more people who want healers to provide support buffs than people who are happy with healers as is.

There are more people who want healers to have bigger DPS kits (regardless of whether it means more DPS or not) than people who are happy with healers as is.

There are more people who want healers to heal more and deal less damage than people who are happy with healers as is.

You're in the smallest minority here and no amount of subdivision will make you the plurality.

Gameplay is broken because it's 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1, people have multiple suggestions to fix it, but they just want it to be fixed.