Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
The healer role entered this mess in the first place because WHM was designed like garbage and the other two at least had something going for them. The devs want numeric balance, but care less about engagement balance. If the dumdum healer is just as good as the complex ones, the complex ones complain that they deserve more output for their complexity. If it's not, the complex healers are satisfied, but the devs look for ways to bring their numbers closer together. Lobotomizing AST and SCH was their decision at the end of Stormblood.

If you get your complexity back, you're putting the role back in the relative position it was in Stormblood. Who's to say they won't make the same decision again? Healers are all dimwits as you know. At least, that seems to be the balancing team's opinion on it.
No, the problem was that the "more complex" healers didn't enjoy the complexity enough that it was a reward in itself.

That is, all of you saying "I don't want to be bored" are lying - what you REALLY MEAN is "I want to be a DPS and do more damage".

The problem in SB is that AST and SCH had more involved kits - so in theory weren't bored - but they complained that their "more work" should mean "more damage", even though the Devs said over and over that healer damage was balanced and they weren't going to buff it. But the "I don't want to be bored" players kept complaining. How DARE people that aren't like them enjoy healing and have comparable performance! So the Devs gutted all the healing kits in a "corrupt-a-wish" sort of way: "Now you don't do more work than WHMs! Happy now?!"

The question comes down to: Is it that you really just want more buttons to push to not be bored...or do you really want to play a damage dealer and just do more damage?

I think this is the crux of all of these discussion and people don't want to address it because they probably see themselves in this picture and don't like it.

If it really IS just you being bored and wanting more buttons to push, then it shouldn't matter that there's a healer Job out there that does the same damage with less button presses and that players who DON'T want to be a "dps-lite" can enjoy it and perform comparably to you on it. After all, your goal was to not be bored, not to outpace less skilled/dedicated players, right? Especially when you factor in that WHM has the least overall utility of all the healers.