Healers need an overhaul

[Sebazy]

I wouldn't have a problem if the dev drop their pants and just scrap the trinity system and adapt a model like Guild War, then I would change my expectation accordingly. But for a game that bill itself as using the trinity, having essentially a Red DPS, a blue DPS, and a green DPS just feel ... wrong.

The point about healing various sizes of party is a good one. One way to make healing more interactive and involving would be to have more of a focus on triage. Right now AoE healing is powerful, abundant and cheap. So much so that even fights like E12S pt 1 are quickly forgotten even though they threw huge amounts of AoE damage at the raid over the duration. Making AoE heals powerful but on much longer cooldowns whilst forcing us to have to prioritise who we heal is one avenue that could be explored. It's this process that made healing vanilla WoW PvP so engrossing for me IMO.

Onto the last point, I really don't think SE needs to drop the trinity system, but a rethink almost to that kind of scale does need to happen if these thick cobwebs are going to be shaken off. A heavier emphasis on hybridisation and buff abilities is a great way to further engage healers. Again, Warhammer Online's Warrior priest is probably the best example of this at least out of any MMO I've played.

[Shurrikhan]

The point about healing various sizes of party is a good one. One way to make healing more interactive and involving would be to have more of a focus on triage. Right now AoE healing is powerful, abundant and cheap.

One age-old suggestion has been to split a portion of the AoE healing. For instance, if a Medica were to do 300 potency per person and then split 200 across all wounded allies in range, it's down to as little as 325 each across 8 people (despite doing its maximum total potency, 2600).

The idea would be to allow AoEs still high total potency without letting them outright replace need for target selection following most raid mechanics.