Whatever happened to “We don’t balance fights around healers needing to do damage?”

[Deceptus]

People complain and want changes and when those changes come they will complain again and do a 180 like always-

Healers wanted more tight healing chekcs you got that in this tier than a big chunk of the healers started crying that they actually have to properly mitigate and heal instead of pressing random ogcds and still getting through the fight.

Those "tight healing checks" always fade away with more gear and we're back the the exact same basic problem as always:

Healer downtime is boring.

[Maltothoris]

FOund this little nugget from mrhappy interview all the way back from 4.2 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...NwqZTwPUw/edit

First of all, we do not expect healers to contribute to DPS. However we know a lot of the cutting edge players enjoy this aspect about the job and that those progressing in the raids early on use it help clear the fights. We decided to make it so that the idea was more approachable and less punishing so that if a player wants to try it, they aren’t sacrificing all of their healing capabilities to do so like they were with the old Cleric Stance. We didn’t like seeing healers doing entire dungeons in Cleric Stance, especially if they forget to switch back and heal!

That being said, and I want you to really reinforce this to your viewers, I firmly believe it shouldn’t be mandatory and we do NOT have the expectation of them to DPS.

I only bring this up because this was the most recent position that Yoshi-P said on the whole matter. He may of since changed on this stance with SGE's whole inclusion per say but man, it does make you think.

[ty_taurus]

FOund this little nugget from mrhappy interview all the way back from 4.2 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...NwqZTwPUw/edit



I only bring this up because this was the most recent position that Yoshi-P said on the whole matter. He may of since changed on this stance with SGE's whole inclusion per say but man, it does make you think.

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