Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
Yeah, MMO healer communities tend to have this dichotomy where people view them as either 1. Princess Teaparty, the one with the quiet voice on VC who's generally pleasant, hardly ever complains, and is just here to heal and glam or 2. Snarly Saltqueen, always complaining about everything and telling everyone to shut up and stop taking damage.

Problem is, neither of these stereotypes is conducive to being taken seriously. If the population sees you as the first, they just kind of...gloss over whatever you were complaining about because it was an anomaly. Or if you do it too much, they recategorize you as #2, and pfffffff 2 just complains about everything there's no reason to take them seriously.

I genuinely believe healer is the hardest role in an MMO to get momentum on just because most people don't care about them, so their mains' complaints get distorted by such perceptions.
Funny, cos after enough people who aren't actually a 2, get labelled as a 2 and ignored, and they leave the role because they're ignored so much, THEN people decide to pay attention. When it starts affecting THEM and THEIR fill times for stuff in PF.



I really hope something gets asked about it at PAX, we're still far enough out from the expansion for some solid design direction changes (if they don't yet realize the scale of the changes needed, somehow). And if a question is asked about it and the response is a meek middling 'we will look at the data' or any variation of 'we think this design we are doing now will work so we will continue with it' I hope to several gods that people in the crowd will boo the hell out of them and cause a PR nightmare about it to force their hand on the matter