G-give it Back T---T; !! (Scholar Edition)

[ForsakenRoe]

I'm just gonna say 'Miss the DOTs, me' and also request Miasma/Shadowflare return. Not even that fussed about Bane

If one were to accept that Flash proves that 'tanks can keep aggro without doing damage', then they have to accept that 'hold aggro' is as binary as 'keep party alive', once you have 'enough', the excess is wasted. That's the real reason tanks 'have' to have damage as part of their kit, and if it's true of tanks, it's true of healers. Just, SE pretends they do not see it, because they don't play healers. As others have said, they design healers not as healer players/for healer players, but from the perspective of 'how to reduce the chance a DPS player is inconvenienced by a low-skilled healer player'.

I can't wait to be told how to have fun by my betters, and how I should be very thankful for the gracious gift of 'yet another bloody 2min heal CD' in Purgation at level 100.

As an aside, in direct counter to the 'Everquest/WOW' stuff, there's a minigame in Runescape, added in 2007. While the main game doesn't have roles, this minigame does: Attackers, who deal damage, Defenders, who 'lure monster onto trap', Collectors who pick up eggs to fire a cannon (this one doesn't have a trinity analogue), and Healer. And while Healer does have to keep the team alive (they cannot even heal themselves, it's 100% on the Healer to do it), said Healer does also have to feed poison food to the enemy Healers. Yes, 'even back then 26 years ago', Runescape managed to work this out. So it's not quite as cut and dry as implied. One MMO went one way, a couple others went a different way with it. But now, more and more games (not just MMOs) have moved towards 'healers have some meaningful contributions they can make during downtimes' rather than 'reduced how often downtimes occur', because not only is it 'more fun for the player' in a wider variety of situations, it's just so much simpler to implement for the devs. It's all well and good saying 'we shouldn't settle for the easy fix' but the budget and devtime restrictions say otherwise. Something Something 'this is the compromise position' and all that