A summary of healer issues

[MaxCarnage]

Healers, just as tanks and DPS, are homogenized because you are able to play every class. They keep each category of class relatively the same style so that people can interchange which of each role they play.

I see a lot of complaints about healer homogenization, but never of tank homogenization or really DPS, either.

And a lot of the complaints come from "healer is boring and they're all the same".

I personally love playing healer. I switched to being a healer main after almost 2 years of DPS because I found it more engaging. I actually have to pay attention and it matters more if I know the fights. I honestly have no idea where this "healers don't have to heal and they're optional" comes from. Because let me tell you, 90% of DF groups I get, the party eats avoidable damage like it's candy. Human error happens. Often. So how is it these people say they never have to heal?

Unless these people complaining are the same people who claim that swiftcast is for glare/malefic/whatever the other two are only and refuse to hardcast a rez because it's a dps loss.

Edit: or they're the healer in an 8-man that makes their co-healer do all the healing.