We Need to Start Expecting Mid-Level Sprouts to Play Better

[GoatOfWar]

And this is exactly how classes get dumbed down to the point that healers have. The unwillingness to adapt and improve. Healers have become 1 button jobs to accomodate these players.

[Raoabolic]

And this is exactly how classes get dumbed down to the point that healers have. The unwillingness to adapt and improve. Healers have become 1 button jobs to accomodate these players.

What ever are you talking about? I think removing talent trees and skills will only help the newer players! :^)

[Padudu]

And this is exactly how classes get dumbed down to the point that healers have. The unwillingness to adapt and improve. Healers have become 1 button jobs to accomodate these players.

Classes get dumbed down because SE, for the most part, caters majorly to MSQ tourists. People who only subscribe for the MSQ, maybe a bit of the new casual content (e.g maps, social stuff, glam, some crafting, ect) and unsubscribe when they've gone through it. These people usually don't attempt anything above maybe a recent extreme and even then they might not at all. After all, the game currently doesn't demand that you have a basic understanding of how your class works.

I'm willing to wager most people - even some healers - feel alright with their current kits. I mean you even get some people on the OF saying that they like the current healing state and have fun with it. I'm going to keep saying this until I'm blue in the face, the game needs to be a better job of conveying of how much you are actually contributing to a dungeon. You can *feel* like you're putting in a lot of effort and then actually do close to nothing at all in reality. An average player has NO way of knowing what their input is without forbidden stuff, *especially* when you get que'd with a good player or two. This is not about people who are playing intentionally bad for a carry or something, this is just about regular players. People who assume in the first place that they don't need help or to look at guides since well - they've been clearing content with what they're doing already, so they can't be doing bad.

There are no hard dps checks, the content is easy to steam roll because they're not balanced correctly, ect ect ect, even at level 50 and above. For these MSQ tourists, I would bet they would never know they're doing bad unless someone had pointed it out. If no one points it out, well..

Thus the game gets dumbed down. They likely want to make the classes easy to pick up after long periods of unsubscribing and they also want to cater to single players who don't want to interact with other people for one reason or another.

Btw, this is just my thoughts on why the classes are so dumbed down as they are. Don't take anything as fact please :^) I will say this is my experience as someone who rejoined the game I would say.. Maybe September or October of 2021. I have a crappy memory, sorry, just know that it's recent lol. Went through ARR too!