TOP cleared with no healers

[BaconBits]

Just quit healing, play a DPS.

Nothing's gonna get done if SE thinks people still like playing healers

Monkey's paw just spasms wildly as SE completely misreads the situation at hand and somehow manage to dumb down healers even further.

[ForteNightshade]

Monkey's paw just spasms wildly as SE completely misreads the situation at hand and somehow manage to dumb down healers even further.

Sadly, that is exactly what they'll do because we've already seen it happen. Bard was once the most popular DPS in the game but a handful of players would whine it was "too complex". Which led to the lobotomization it underwent from Shadowbringers onward all in the name of accessibility. Turns out making the job simpler didn't bring in as many new players but certainly drove away many who once liked Bard as it's tumbled all the way down to being the least played DPS. Even Black Mage is more popular nowadays.

The devs already know there is no satisfying everyone so they don’t even try. It’s good they don’t. I’m pretty sure if next expansion they gave healers mains everything they been asking for there will be people still complaining about something. The devs just can’t win.

These kinda post are so redundant now.

Thing is... they haven't really satisfied anyone here. Complaints about the monotony of healer gameplay isn't coming exclusively from the raid community. In fact, I've heard just as a loud a vocalization from mid-level and even casual players who don't partake in a lot of high end content, or any at all. They're also bored because half their kit is utterly meaningless. Lilybell isn't exciting to your average player because when will they ever use it? Not even a lot of the EXs this expansion demand it, much less 24 mans or dungeons. That isn't to say it doesn't have its uses in those content but when Assize and Asylum can handle everything, it's not exactly hype to have yet another heal. Not to mention more casual players are playing how the devs thinks we should: using Medica and Medica II. Which only nullifies the value of things like Lilybell futher.

There's such a thing is not trying to satisfy everyone and just satisfying no one instead. It's lazy design that we're four years into Healer's only gameplay loop being spam a single nuke 500 times. And no, that isn't a hyperbolic number. I've had 500+ casts of Glare in 24 mans, more than every other button combined.