Latest Official Developer Statements About Healer DPS?

[Aravell]

Yeah, right. From what I have seen many healers in ultimate PFs are barse-brains and do the least amount of healing needed. If party is "griefing" them they kick offenders or leave, and since they are the most demanded role they are kings.

The only way to give healers DPS rotation is by moving ALL healing to oGCDs so it won't affect damage, otherwise the toxicity in PFs will skyrocket. In other words, mirroring tank design.

Have you considered that catering the role more towards the preferred playstyle of these "barse-brained" people would only serve to increase the amount of those types of people? I remember back in the earlier expansions where people rightfully called out healers who blamed the people that died from damage.

If we want healers that can prioritise the duties of their role over their funny log numbers, it needs to be harder to do damage, not easier. And if it ends up chasing away the people who care more about numbers than a smooth clear? Well, can't say I would miss them.

Of course, if someone wants to barse, they should shut up and join a barsing PF, instead.

I of course hate when someone joins a non-logging PF to boost their logs because they usually will wipe the party for a single GCD. But I also can't really blame them for doing that, because most log parties nowadays require people to have 80+ or something, have to get that somewhere. It's still a rude thing to do, but I can also understand why they do it.