I really don’t know anymore….

[Sebazy]

If Healers became "supports" - a euphamism to mean "DPSers with better ques" - then I'd just quit the role.

I'd much rather they diversify the role and give the healer Jobs niches like buffer, heal focus, and damage focus instead, then at least there'd be some assurance at least one of them wouldn't suck and be a worse DPS Job.

Isn't a support by definition a buffer though?

When I push healers as supports, I don't mean more DPS buttons, I mean more HW/SB AST. Buffs, debuffs. Supportive abilities. Not raw nukes and dots. Sure, all roads eventually lead to damage dealt town, but there's way you can obfuscate it in a way that helps the healer fantasy. How about a maintainable GCD damage buff that boosts damage akin to old Spirits Within? Oh hey suddenly there's a reason to actually heal people rather than letting Soil/Asylum take care of it over however long it needs.

The other question is, tell me what purpose a specifically heal focused healer brings in mainstream content given that A) Pure healers have shields and shield healers have pure heals+regens as is & B) Existing healers kits are way overtuned already. Lastly, how do you stop that healing focused healer being needlessly excluded and shunned akin to WHM in 3.4-3.5?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not entirely against SE scatter gunning the healers down a bunch of different paths. If anything I think it's actually a good idea to diversify the role for an expansion to see what sticks. In the longer term though, I've got absolutely zero faith in them being able to do a good job of all 4 healers at this stage. It'd be a case of seeing what works and then taking ones that inevitably crash and burn down the popular road.

Yeah, I don't know what causes the Glarespam WHM "until the heavens fall", but it's the weirdest thing to me to see a WHM continuing to chain cast Glare when 5-6 party members are dead, including the other healer. That's more like bot mentality than sentient person mentality.

I'm still of the mindset that if the role was worth paying attention to in a 24 man then people would be more likely to actually pay attention. If I see that, I just assume they are watching something on the second screen and paying zero attention whatsoever and frankly, I can't even blame them. Aglaia had me wishing I could bring myself to do the same TBH.