Healers need an overhaul

[ASkellington]

All I've ever wanted was for WHM to be fun and well-designed. I've been arguing for it for years. If we're throwing blame around the playerbase, I've seen PLENTY of AST/SCH mains arguing that WHM should "stay simple", or "get something...but we don't want homogenization so not anything *I*'m good at (....which is everything). Good luck designing that well!"

Not saying I've seen a lot of direct "WHM should suck" posts (though I've seen those too), but there's definitely been a have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too with AST/SCH mains where they'd like to have seen WHM improved in a vague Hallmark sympathy card kind of way, but also list out constraints on that improvement that overlap in such a way that you can't actually improve it.

Yeah I do think WHM should stay simple as in "easier to heal with than the other 3". Its the starting healer it should remain that way.

That does not mean I do not think WHM shouldn't be complex in other areas or that it shouldn't have a higher skill ceiling than it does currently.

For example a healer that focuses wholly on HoT style of healing is more challenging for a newer play to learn versus a healer that heals up front. This is what I'd like to see from AST and WHM. AST gaining more delayed healing in their base (sub 50) content while WHM keeps its on demand heals.

I also think that WHM's damage by comparison should be upfront as well. Vs SCH's previous DoT gameplay.

Tl;dr - "Simple" as in easy to understand and execute and not barebones and giving nothing to experienced players who want to challenge themselves.

[Silver-Strider]

Yeah I do think WHM should stay simple as in "easier to heal with than the other 3". Its the starting healer it should remain that way.

That does not mean I do not think WHM shouldn't be complex in other areas or that it shouldn't have a higher skill ceiling than it does currently.

For example a healer that focuses wholly on HoT style of healing is more challenging for a newer play to learn versus a healer that heals up front. This is what I'd like to see from AST and WHM. AST gaining more delayed healing in their base (sub 50) content while WHM keeps its on demand heals.

I also think that WHM's damage by comparison should be upfront as well. Vs SCH's previous DoT gameplay.

Tl;dr - "Simple" as in easy to understand and execute and not barebones and giving nothing to experienced players who want to challenge themselves.

It's a nice sentiment but rings hollow when we consider AST has a much easier time healing starting off than WHM