Would you rather healers get more complex healing kits or more complex DPS kits?

[OgruMogru]

It's because healers are the trophy girlfriend role. Milky and passive. You're accessories, not the main focus.

This is sarcasm but it's not because it's the way healers have been largely presented and treated for years. Decades.

[IDontPetLalas]

It's because healers are the trophy girlfriend role. Milky and passive. You're accessories, not the main focus.

This is sarcasm but it's not because it's the way healers have been largely presented and treated for years. Decades.

This made me laugh entirely too much (despite the elements of truth), because of thinking of the first time I heard various healers on VC and how shocked various people were when they turned out to be guys. One of my best friends used to rant at me all the time about how he always had to say "yes, I'm a guy"

[ForsakenRoe]

Besides that, paladin and dark knight both are magic users, even if caster stretches it somewhat. It is pretty telling that their magic aspects (lights inside worm, cutting the forgiven whatsit in half) are more being used as a way to hype up a delayed full reveal of the poster boy rather than as a flashy fighting technique.

Yeh, that's what I'm thinking, when it IS magic related by tangent like PLD, DRK, and to an extent RDM has it too, it's a melee weapon being used as the method by which the magic is being delivered. DRK using Shadowbringer an expansion early, PLD slashing a terminus worm in half with light. Alph and the SGE nouliths breaks the mould very well, but I wonder how much that's because the weapon itself breaks the mould in it's design. That, and/or the 'we have been waiting for a healer for 6 years now, we'll take anything we can get' factor. On which note, I'm still pissed they replace the animation from the trailer (Toxikon 1) with a completely different, and in my opinion worse, one. Make Toxikon 1 and 2 have different coloured lasers in Tox2's animation, and move Tox1's animation over to Phlegma. Delete the big blue ball. Or make a 'Eukrasian Phlegma' that uses the blue ball animation, and is an AOE DOT applicator

Anyway, that's why I think it'll be more physical stuff for now, until they have some new casters (and weapon archetypes) to work with. Though, with the redesign and how much 'spectacle' there is to it, I guess SMN could work. Actually, what's the roles for 8.0, physranged and a tank, right? Then it can be the new tank there, I suppose

[OgruMogru]

This made me laugh entirely too much (despite the elements of truth), because of thinking of the first time I heard various healers on VC and how shocked various people were when they turned out to be guys. One of my best friends used to rant at me all the time about how he always had to say "yes, I'm a guy"

Haha, it's so funny how it can influence people's expectations like that! On a couple of occasions I've been in VC with randoms for PF and stuff and they've heard a feminine voice, very clearly talking about BLM positioning and leylines or whatever and STILL tried to talk with me about healing plans like mate I can't help you I'm a simple Blm I can offer u an addle ;_;

[TheDustyOne]

This made me laugh entirely too much (despite the elements of truth), because of thinking of the first time I heard various healers on VC and how shocked various people were when they turned out to be guys. One of my best friends used to rant at me all the time about how he always had to say "yes, I'm a guy"

Remember; MMORPG really stands for Many Men Online Role-Playing Girls.

Not that I'm one to talk.