Do we really need two healers per alliance in 24 mans?

[Saefinn]

Oh goodie, a pedantic argument. Hooray.

If you healed less whenever using those cooldowns....you'd have to use more of the cooldowns.

I didn't say that it was the end-all be-all of solutions. Sure let's talk pie in the sky about completely changing how all encounters and the healer role work in the game. That's definitely worth talking about because it's likely to happen. SE has shown that they're aware that they need to completely redesign everything.

This is why I've generally asked for:
- More DPS/DPS support options. Downtime is a thing, to stop it being a thing is way too big of a job. Let's accept it and fill it. Make it engaging.
- For future content, design encounters to make better use of our healing kits.

The devs:
- We won't improve DPS options on healers, we don't want healers to be shoehorned into DPS. But we have designed SGE to be more challenging, go try that.
- We won't make healing more engaging. We want it to be accessible. The game just isn't balanced to what our kits offer.

I take their advice and play SGE. For SGE to be engaging I have to play it badly (and I do for that reason). I tried playing SGE well and found my use of Dosis increase. I Toxicon fish so that I spam Dosis less. But in Aglaia, there's not enough damage to even justify trying to get Toxicon procs. So it's just a Dosis spam for the most part.

I really hope they change their mind. Because the only solutions without redesigning elements of the game (which would be a huge undertaking) require them to do what they said they won't do. I think there's been plenty of suggestions from the community that would retain accessibility whilst adding enough complexity for experienced players. And the great thing about adding better DPS options is that it is not needed for the vast majority of group content with healers. But IMO it does need to be accompanied with the goal of more mechanics for healers to heal...just tweaked appropriately for the level of content...because we are healers and thus want to actually heal.