Has anyone quit healing?

[ForsakenRoe]

The media tour questions are always the same softballs, we get a total of like 150 questions asked and like 10 are about healing or healers or whatever. The issue is, the 'influencers' who go to the tours are mostly not-healer players, or if they are, they play it as an 'off spec', rather than a main. SE needs to look into inviting more healer mains to balance things out better, else we'll have to just deal with the 'healer representation' at next tour being Mr Happy asking 'yeh uhh is stuff going to hit harder' and Yoshi once again saying 'we think the dungeons will be challenging please look forward to it'. And then it turns out the dungeons are not challenging in the slightest, because they gave us 2 more healing tools we don't need

And sorry if I sounded harsh, not trying to pick holes. Just clarifying. Early SB was kind of amusing for me as the general consensus on the forums was that WHM was DOA with how awful Lilys and PI looked, whilst people were generally of the mindset that SCH would continue to be dominant. That didn’t pan out on release at all. Thin Air single handedly solved WHMs issues from HW whilst SCH was a gutted mess. Again to be clear, it didn’t get most of its kit back. It got 1 ‘new’ ability which was actually pretty interesting and a bunch of potency buffs. It still wasn’t the old HW SCH for better or worse tho

This is the issue, I think. In the end of HW (3.4 onward), we had 'SCH is busted good everyone loves it, AST is busted good everyone loves it, WHM is not good it's MP costs are too high and it doesn't provide anywhere near as much damage to the raid as AST can'. Presumably everyone was hoping for 'SCH AST are relatively the same power level, WHM buffed to catch up to them, everyone is happy', that didn't happen, we got the original lily system.

At the end of SB, the same sort of feeling was in play, 'SCH good, AST good, WHM needs buffs'. But instead of SE buffing WHM to catch up, they also dragged SCH and AST down. In numerical rating terms, SCH was a 9/10, AST was a 8 or 9/10, WHM was a 3/10. Going into SHB, the community hoped that WHM would be buffed to be an 8/10 too. Instead, it was buffed to be a 7/10, with the cost being that SCH and AST were brought down to being a 6/10. Well, on original release of SHB, AST was a 3/10 because it's healing potencies were super bad, and SCH was a -4/10 because they removed energy drain again

All they had to do was put the SHB lilies, onto SB WHM, reduce the MP cost of Stone/Glare slightly, and buff the damage to compare to 'average AST output'. Instead, they didn't just throw out the baby with the bathwater, they threw the bathtub out too