Healers need an overhaul

[KageTokage]

I don't understand why there is such a huge aversion to giving healers more offensive abilities when tanks are getting them constantly.

I'd rather have a more interesting rotation then progressively bloating the amount of incoming damage so as to warrant having even more healing/mitigation cooldowns to deal with it because it just leads to the gameplay in "easy" content feeling extremely stale when you don't even need to use most of your kit.

I'm sure they'll just blame the low participation on something else, it never stopped them before.

Worst case scenario they think people don't want to heal because it's "too hard" and dumb the jobs down even more.

Which honestly wouldn't surprise me in AST's case.

[Recon1o6]

I don't understand why there is such a huge aversion to giving healers more offensive abilities when tanks are getting them constantly.

I'd rather have a more interesting rotation then progressively bloating the amount of incoming damage so as to warrant having even more healing/mitigation cooldowns to deal with it because it just leads to the gameplay in "easy" content feeling extremely stale when you don't even need to use most of your kit.

Agreed but a major complaint among healers since SB where outside of certain fights like omega 3/4 healing has practically been nonexistant to the point that multiple savage raids have been cleared when current without healers.

healers weren't as up in arms in SB since sch still had a dps rotation and Ast had fun cards. Whm's had plenty to cry about in general in SB. The lack of healing to do issue has always played second fiddle to a more pressing issue in the healer role. In SB it was WHM. Shb onwards its the entire role being 2-1-1-1-1 etc

All the removal and homogenisation has done is further highlight how stale and shitty the game is on healers and how it drove way healer mains

Atm most content on healers is stale. All this patch has done is highlight the issues even more since all the freeloading healers were scared away in ex and savage. Currently the only reason this happened is a damn fluke when they misread my 6.1 question.

[ty_taurus]

I don't understand why there is such a huge aversion to giving healers more offensive abilities when tanks are getting them constantly.

I'd rather have a more interesting rotation then progressively bloating the amount of incoming damage so as to warrant having even more healing/mitigation cooldowns to deal with it because it just leads to the gameplay in "easy" content feeling extremely stale when you don't even need to use most of your kit.



Worst case scenario they think people don't want to heal because it's "too hard" and dumb the jobs down even more.

Which honestly wouldn't surprise me in AST's case.

It won't be surprising when each tank gets a DPS level 100 capstone in 7.0 but each healer will get:

WHM: A Lily spell that puts a 300 potency HoT on the party for 20 seconds on a 120 second cooldown.
AST: Something similar to, but superior in every way to the WHM capstone.
SCH: An OGCD 800 potency AoE heal that disables your faerie for 30 seconds.
SGE: Alphinaud's/Fourchenault's barrier wall that works like Passage of Arms basically.

[Kemeko]

I wouldn't mind a filler 1-2-3 combo, all same combo bonus potency but highlights when you do it in sequence and looks flashy when done. That way you can have the option to put it on your hotbar or leave it off and still spam 1 button for the same dps.

[Sunhwapark]

Worst case scenario they think people don't want to heal because it's "too hard" and dumb the jobs down even more.

Which honestly wouldn't surprise me in AST's case.

As much as I want to say "Let's wait and see, it can't turn out that bad, right?" I'd have to be staring at my reflection wearing a clown nose and wig.

I can't even have low expectations because CBU3's healer design will turn up with a full excavation crew just to dig even lower than said expectations.
Sadly it feels like at this rate, healers are gonna end up being the first role to have "Explorer mode" benefits that apply in all levels of content.

I have deep respect for those that are still putting out constructive feedback regarding the state of healers (especially in the healer subforum). I used to love this role alot, but now i just want to reject its existence because I'm tired of this expansion that is essentially the "Shadowbringers 2" experience.