Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
"all"? No.

What it would do is cause a shortage of Healers in casual content - roulettes - which is something the Devs DO care about. There aren't enough of you hardcore types to fill in roulettes for all the people who would quit healing. Not only are there just not enough of you, many hardcore raider types don't do casual roulettes. They do Experts or the like with their fellow Static members. We've seen similar problems in the past when there were Tank shortages. The high end Tank players who loved it weren't filling in the roulettes. They'd do enough to get BiS, then they wouldn't que for them anymore. I suspect the same would happen to healing.

You know there's one thing that will get the Devs to act faster than anything to "fix" the problem - if DPS have to wait more than 15 minutes for a 4 man dungeon que.
I don't think that's a valid assumption. ARR>HW's cleric stance was far more punishing and problematic than any sensible healer viable DPS rotation will ever be. It didn't stop healers from being plentiful in casual content, it just stopped a large portion of the healer player base from DPSing. Despite what the years of pointless threads would have one believe, at the end of the day it wasn't a real problem outside of very specific content that said casual players likely weren't touching anyway.

Honestly, hardcore players are just as likely/unlikely to roll with friends or solo queue as anyone else. It's a personal preference thing. There's just less need to get the daily Experto in than ever before now. Farm maps? You're probably capped. Hunts? Almost certainly capped. Still clearing Savage? That's a bunch of tomes towards the weekly balance right there.