Thoughts on the Yoshi P AMA?

[Deceptus]

I'd be careful believing these one off answers from tiny interviews before an expac drops. We're currently in the "promise the world" phase and they're going to say exactly what people want to hear.

I don't want to just call them liars about things like this but development takes a while and plans change so don't get too excited about anything because this is all probably a very long time off.

If we're in "promise the world stage" and Yoshi is saying "low priority this" "can't do that (mch box)" I fear for what the future holds /s

Your average person who rolled dps or tank as their first job tends to be more of the persuasion that healers are intimidating due to potential wipe causing factors and increased visibility of mistakes. I've had that exact conversation with sprouts and even players at endgame who refuse to touch healers because they believe due to either word of mouth or past experiences that it's an intimidating role where your mistakes can lead to your party failing to clear a boss and having to restart which to them is a mortifying possibility. Statistically healer has also been the least played role at endgame from the beginning before and after the supposed guttings. That has never not been the case so your theory that people quit healer due to simplification doesn't hold much weight. The role is no less popular now than it was in the past - the stats are about the same as ever.

TLDR it's true that your average player doesn't care as much as you might think because they believe healer jobs are intimidating anyway. Overall it does not surprise me to see this entirely ignored when they could ask about Viera/Hrothgar headgear or glamour plates.

Respectfully, a lot of "healer issues" come down to bad tanks not using their mitigations properly or completely ignoring potions in low level content (which heal for a massive amount on a low 1m CD) especially with how self sustaining tanks are these days.