Healers need an overhaul

[Supersnow845]

I just want to say how happy I am hearing and seeing so many different opinions about this thread that I made out of love and genuine frustration so many months ago. Sadly, that frustration grows a little bit every day as I sit in PF after PF hoping and praying for healers to join the party only for people to eventually give up and leave after a while. Despite the game being bigger and more popular than ever it's become incredibly difficult to get people to queue up for current endgame content as healer despite getting a new healer this expansion and with savage dungeons on the immediate horizon. Reading through this thread my only hope is that the devs see this discussion and keep everything said in mind as they continue to develop the game. Regardless of how you may personally feel about this topic, I would hope and assume that everyone who took the time to click on this thread did so because they truly enjoy playing this game and want it to be a fun and healthy experience for everyone. I will continue hoping for this as well and cross my fingers about what the future will bring.

Honestly it’s annoying for us all but I kinda hope that this absolute deficit of healers continues, if a lack of healers begins to actually affect how the game functions it might finally be the catalyst that gets square to realise the healing design in this game is utter rubbish

It might do nothing but it’s also about the only way we might see a change

[RyuDragnier]

Honestly it’s annoying for us all but I kinda hope that this absolute deficit of healers continues, if a lack of healers begins to actually affect how the game functions it might finally be the catalyst that gets square to realise the healing design in this game is utter rubbish

It might do nothing but it’s also about the only way we might see a change

Or once again the devs will miss the problem and dumb down the healing kit thinking that healing is the problem when it's the DPS side of it. Which would be stupid since they actually got healing in Savage right this time around, with a hell of a lot more raidwide damage going out that actually hits really hard and requires the party to work together to mitigate it, and tankbusters that leave a nasty DoT on the tanks. So at least they figured out healing for Savage...now make the DPS side better for stuff that isn't that intensive and we'll be good.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Honestly it’s annoying for us all but I kinda hope that this absolute deficit of healers continues, if a lack of healers begins to actually affect how the game functions it might finally be the catalyst that gets square to realise the healing design in this game is utter rubbish

It might do nothing but it’s also about the only way we might see a change

At the risk of sounding like a jerk who’s barely affected by the healer shortage due to being in static, I do hold the same hopium that SE will finally bat an eye, for better or worse.

After all, if people weren’t starting to block WHM off their PF, they probably will never adjust that Misery potency and give us a downgraded Aero II

Also hopefully they won’t replace the current healer tester should they start learning EX too at some point