Is Dawntrail going to bring new things again?

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Or just don't do them. Which is what 90% of randoms do. But in saying that, I never do high-end, so grain of salt with the parsing crowd. I'm not saying removing them is some galaxy brain play. I'm saying that most people dont do them and don't care. And since none of them are tied to anything anymore, they exist only to make that crowd excited because number went up. So it really doesn't matter anymore.

This is probably because you've never set foot in high end then. Not doing your positionals in there is literally griefing, at least in the first weeks.

I love it because it just doesn't pass the smell test at all. Are we all really supposed to believe that a ton of people were going like "Whoah, they removed the DPS buttons from the healers down to 1 spam spell and a uniform 30s DoT! Time to start playing this MMO now, healers are fixed!"
Of course not, they didn't. You can apply this for any job that was changed going into ShB, the reality is that the other parts of the game are what drew people to it, and just as many of these ShB/EW players hate the way healers/tanks/etc play. The gameplay changes had nothing to do with its success.

I agree with the feeling, but as a counterpoint, I must point out that support roles have never been as popular. Queues were a lot more hardcore back then on DPS jobs. Tanks especially fare better, since they used to be THE job in need and today, it's more on healers although it's less clear cut.