Healers need an overhaul

[Raven2014]

That's my point: WoW is an anomaly. Next time you pick up, say, Final Fantasy [fill in the blank], clock how much time you cast healing spells versus doing anything else. Pick up something with the RPG tag from Steam or GoG. It could be Divinity, or Pathfinder, or Baldur's Gate, Pillars of Eternity, any Bethesda RPG, Tales game, Witcher, Fable, Dragon Age, you name it. When people play these games, they tend to *get* it. Your characters defeat their enemies and save the day. Sometimes your healer spent a little more time than usual healing. Frequently, they were blasting demons instead. I've never heard of anyone shrieking "NO! Why does Wynne from Dragon Age have dirty attack spells!? She's a HEALer! She should be HEALing! What ever happened to Traditional Real Healing where HEALERS HEALED?" Nobody's said that because that's ridiculous. Everyone -knows- how healers generally work. Until they turn it upside down because they want FF14 to be WoW.

First, RPG and MMORPG are two distinct gene. You dismiss WoW (an actual MMO) as a anomoly, yet using a bunch of single player to make your case ... how does that even make sense?

Second, WoW is definitely not an anomaly. If anything, it is the NORM in that regard. Start War Old Republic use it. Tera is meme for it over-exposure armor but generally considered having the best combat system in MMO use it. The healing in Tera is a battle in itself, and that's not because they have to DPS. While I won't say FF14 is the exception when it comes to green DPS, its model is definitely on the minority side among all the relevant MMO.

Also the irony is in almost half of those games (the D&D style ones), healers main purpose is a buff bots, heal second, and DPS is a distant third only useful late game with a min/max build. I enjoy those games a lot. Path 1 + 2 together clocked in 1000h for me on steam. But no, keep those healers away from my MMO please.


On unrelated note: my observation on this forum about WoW is it seems to be like a certain ex-president. Both the people who hate it and love it seem can't help but let it live rent free in their head. It's always funny seeing two sides gaslighting each other over it.