The Healers should be reworked? New player perspective.

[Shurrikhan]

The status quo is Healer Jobs as they are now. THAT is the baseline position from which we bargain and seek compromise.

Nice arbitrary point of delineation there, especially given that the "status quo" you're using as if it were a moral high ground... took 4 expansions of changes to reach, with a hefty portion of those larger changes being unrequested and widely despised, especially since ShB.

What would be, at each of those points, your warrant for... taking from those who did, for instance, prefer the old Cards system to arrive nearer to this new status quo? In reducing 5 DPS skills to 3? In so reducing healing requirements? In shifting healing increasingly just towards oGCDs?

What? "It just is, so deal with it now"? That's the equivalent of a thief demanding that not a cent be given back because the status quo now features that money in his pocket instead.

So why should this single point in time be uniquely protected and disproportionately weighted, especially when so many of the warrants against those more controversial changes still apply today?

But at this point, I'm on the verge of holding the opinion that if you're unwilling to share the pool, and you're going to fight with other people over who gets to use the pool, then perhaps YOU get kicked out of the pool, not everyone else swimming happily who is willing to share with you.

So sayeth... the beneficiary of, already, multiple evictions from said pool / having pissed in the water enough that so many felt compelled to leave.

I wonder why it is that so many who allege to speak for a "silent majority" completely forget also any majority silenced by having the game changed towards they can't find worth continuing to play.

The only thing you can assume/know is that 80% want more dps actions and 20% do not.

We know that 80% clicked the button to ask for more damage buttons, and 20% did not. That is all.

There was not button for No. There was no button for indifferent. One simply clicked off any among the 5 options per "Which of the following [one] would like to see in the future for White Mage? (Check all that apply.)" Those options, by the way, were shared almost identically across all jobs regardless of role.

What you're concluding is an interpretation (more than likely biased) of the data's findings, but not the findings themselves. Ironic, given your complaints and your agreement otherwise that more response options would be required to reach more specific conclusions.

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EDIT [For those not familiar with the surveys]:

The WHM survey, by way of example. There was a near-identical one for each job.