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

[IDontPetLalas]

Strong disagree on "70% of of your time spamming a certain healing button," because a lot of incoming damage often requires switching up tools and making decisions on throughput vs efficiency, using procs, using mitigation, deploying cooldowns, building resource layers, etc.

And it's way, way better than spamming glare or broil or whatever for more than 70% of casts. People who play this game like to pooh pooh actual MMO healing, then go back to hitting that glare key like a woodpecker.

There are a considerable number of options in some other games, such as skill trees or similar features, that do not exist in this games, which support multiple choices and styles of "MMO healing" so if I'm likely to "poo poo " anything, it's healer design decisions such as the skills that were removed in this game, so now you see how the designer's changes to healing job design interact with encounter design, and healers making use of one of 2 skills in downtime isn't their fault.

Agree by the way that constantly spending 70% of your time healing is not really interesting, it's more interesting when it's thrown in for intense periods.

[HappyHubris]

There are a considerable number of options in some other games, such as skill trees or similar features, that do not exist in this games, which support multiple choices and styles of "MMO healing" so if I'm likely to "poo poo " anything, it's healer design decisions such as the skills that were removed in this game, so now you see how the designer's changes to healing job design interact with encounter design, and healers making use of one of 2 skills in downtime isn't their fault.

Agree by the way that constantly spending 70% of your time healing is not really interesting, it's more interesting when it's thrown in for intense periods.

You don't need skill trees if execution is challenging. The choices are on what tool to use when, not on how your character is built.

Again, I'm floored that people think that adapting their healing to different stimuli is "not really interesting," but glare spam is "super fun yeahyeahyeah." It's like healers in this game have Stockholm syndrome. If DPS spent 70% of their time spamming a buff button because the bosses could only absorb X damage per minute, would players similarly be placid?

[IDontPetLalas]

You don't need skill trees if execution is challenging. The choices are on what tool to use when, not on how your character is built.

Again, I'm floored that people think that adapting their healing to different stimuli is "not really interesting," but glare spam is "super fun yeahyeahyeah." It's like healers in this game have Stockholm syndrome. If DPS spent 70% of their time spamming a buff button because the bosses could only absorb X damage per minute, would players similarly be placid?

That's not what I wrote. If you had read it you would have seen "such as skill trees or similar features" , or if you had even asked me what I meant (if it was unclear), i.e. options. What you call a "tool" is typically a skill. it may or may not be via a skill tree , however it still needs to be available, in some way.


Insulting people (again), by stating that they're held hostage to a game - i.e. "It's like healers in this game have Stockholm syndrome" isn't really going to persuade me, nor is categorizing people as being "placid". Particularly so if you want to start misquoting people with statements like "glare spam is "super fun yeahyeahyeah"- no one has said that - except you, that is.