Is the Healer subforum here toxic?

[ForsakenRoe]

Yep. I poke my head in there sometimes and while there are some good conversations, it usually at some point just becomes pages of people attacking each other and I nope back out here to GD.

The fighting usually happens because so many people in there are in agreement that something needs to be changed about the role, we discuss what might work or might not work as solutions, merits of trying eg 'increase healing requirements' versus 'add more damage options', it's usually civil from what I've seen/participated in. And then you get certain elements coming in, stirring the pot and getting everyone's heckles up whether intentionally or otherwise.

We don't get heated because we're toxic. We get heated because despite how badly the design of the role treats us, we're still healer mains at heart, and we just want what is best for the role going forward. But when we get hit with ridiculous statements like 'you guys are not really healers, you should play DNC/RDM cos you actually want to play support', or more recently an instance which went like 'AST is the only healer in PVP, the others are supports', yeh I'm going to stand up and rebuke it. Partially because I disagree with the characterization, but also because if someone says something as stupid and provably incorrect as the latter, I'm going to tell them as much. I'm not going to entertain people claiming stupid viewpoints as fact when they're easily disproven, or we'd be forced to listen to flat-earthers and hear them out because 'well maybe they have a point'

If that makes me toxic in someone's eyes, then they've never seen how bad toxicity can be

@OP: yes it's terrible, run away and never look back, save yourself before it is too late, before you fall into the trap of staying up till 4am finetuning potencies on a theorycraft that will only be shot down because 'it adds one damage button and that is one too many, the role is called HEALER it is meant to HEAL'