Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
I think it was Roe who said in the healing forums she was uneasy about something to the effect of (paraphrase) "Just slap a 1-2-3 rotation on all the healers", because her fear was we may only get one bite at this apple and didn't want to waste it on something that would be unfulfilling.
I think that was in response to specifically someone saying 'oh you want more damage buttons to press? OK just give healers a 123 combo, then they have to press 3 buttons instead of one, that solves the issue right?' No, it wouldn't solve the issue, and my fear is that SE would do it, want to wait 2 years to 'collect data' or whatever, then when the complaints come in about how 'healer still sucks' (with no additional detail on why it sucks), they go 'well we tried what they were asking for ('more damage buttons') and it didn't stop the complaining, so let's just not do anything further, since they will complain anyway'. It's the same thing as Abyssos, people asked for 'more healing', and we got 'more healing'. But where some people were hoping to go from 'a raidwide every minute' to 'a raidwide every 40s' for example, Abyssos instead went with 'a raidwide every minute, also there's a bleed that totals up to the full damage of the raidwide again attached'. Yes it's 'more healing' but in an unsatisfying way

I'd also be uneasy about 'just decrease the time between raidwides by 25%' or 'add a ground DOT effect that constantly ticks for 5% of your max HP per tick', because they are equally as boring a 'solution' as the 1-2-3. They raise the healing required, sure, but even in the unlikely chance that they manage to make us dip into GCD healing, something like the permanent DOT would just mean we do full Medica2 uptime and it's dealt with. And that's not enough to make the role fun either. At least with a 15s damage spell (instead of the 15s HOT duration on M2) there's potential for kit interactivity, like idk 'using this 15s CD attack reduces the CD on Tetragrammaton by 2 seconds' or something

Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
Naturally, the best solution is to address all angles if the issue. That's a pretty daunting task that would require a lot of work. I believe it was Aravell who mentioned how starting with DPS could work to help alleviate some of the tension in the meantime, provided that other changes were also along the way. If they came out and addressed the concerns while providing a roadmap for how they plan to address them, I could be entirely content with that if I agree with their projected endstate.
And the largest amount of work is 'getting SE to acknowledge the problem exists in the first place'