The Healers should be reworked? New player perspective.

[Renathras]

Why does that matter to you?

It matters enough to you that you would oppose it...so that means it's important to me, too.

I don't think that's a valid assumption.

I suspect it's more valid than you think. You mention ARR/HW Cleric, but as we've talked about before, Cleric wasn't used by large portions of the community, and as people here are fond of saying, "We were all bad back then" and the game's nuances hadn't been fully probed and mathed out.

...and about when those things changed into what the modern playerbase is, Cleric was removed. Specifically for that reason - that it was dividing the community and that there was a big disparity between Healer damage outcomes which gave the Devs headaches to try to balance around. It didn't stop Healers from being plentiful UNTIL people got good enough/the game got solved enough that people started cussing out others in casual content for not using it. And what happened? ENOUGH Healers were quitting healing that the Devs took note and removed Cleric (as a toggle). In other words, this very thing happened before with the more modern playerbase.

And the game's only become EVEN MORE casual since then.

Disagree with the last bit. While everything IS personal preference, history has shown us that the hardcore players were not in the casual pool, and certainly not enough to make up for an exodus of casuals. We saw this with Tanks in mid-to-late SB.

Again: Do you really doubt the Devs will react if they start to see DPS que times creep up? We both know that's something they actually DO care about. And history has two examples to us of this happening, meaning it's not at all unreasonable to assume it would again. You can argue the magnitude, but not that it won't happen.

For one, I'd quit healing. Absolutely. I might outright quit the game, but I'd definitely quit healing. I've said before, if I want a DPS rotation, I'll play a DPS Job. If I don't outright quit the game, I'd just swap to maining SMN and being part of the DPS que - which, incidentally, would make the ques worse.

As a casual healer, I have to say: I'm deeply insulted by how little you think I'm capable of.

Where did I state what you or anyone is "capable of"?