Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Supersnow845]

I'm dropping healing for 7.0 after telling myself to hold out for "one more expansion."

And YoshiP will probably see my shift in the population and think that it's a sign that healing is too hard and pushing players away.

There is no winning.

The eternal problem

If we stay they call the numbers healthy and change nothing

If we leave they think we are leaving because healer is too hard and make it easier

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

The eternal problem

If we stay they call the numbers healthy and change nothing

If we leave they think we are leaving because healer is too hard and make it easier

[ty_taurus]

The eternal problem

If we stay they call the numbers healthy and change nothing

If we leave they think we are leaving because healer is too hard and make it easier

I honestly am curious what would happen if enough people stopped playing healing completely and swapped to DPS, while regularly flooding the queues with DPS and refusing to budge until healing received proper adjustments, and no amount of simplifying or making the role easier made any impact on the massive drought.

[rawker]

I honestly am curious what would happen if enough people stopped playing healing completely and swapped to DPS, while regularly flooding the queues with DPS and refusing to budge until healing received proper adjustments, and no amount of simplifying or making the role easier made any impact on the massive drought.

I'm afraid they'd simplify healing further to draw in more casuals into braindead-er healers.

[Rehayem]

I'm afraid they'd simplify healing further to draw in more casuals into braindead-er healers.

And then people have a shocked pikachu face when there's a shortage of healers. Wasn't that the case already during Abyssos?

[rawker]

And then people have a shocked pikachu face when there's a shortage of healers. Wasn't that the case already during Abyssos?

The cycle continues.

[ty_taurus]

I'm afraid they'd simplify healing further to draw in more casuals into braindead-er healers.

But I'm saying that no amount of simplifying draws in enough people in that hypothetical. The state of DF gets critical due to lack of healer participation because almost no one is willing to put up with the boring gameplay.

[rawker]

But I'm saying that no amount of simplifying draws in enough people in that hypothetical. The state of DF gets critical due to lack of healer participation because almost no one is willing to put up with the boring gameplay.

To be honest, I am starting to lose faith that the healers will get any better. Not sure how they came up to the conclusion that simpler + flashier = better.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

To be honest, I am starting to lose faith that the healers will get any better. Not sure how they came up to the conclusion that simpler + flashier = better.

They learned that from EW SMN apparently: "I feel like I"m -really- summoning things now!"---summon what? That's literally just some flashy VFX attached on an instant GCD.

I have died inside once for calling out that benchmark GCD heal as Medica III giving off the same PTSD as EW Holy III for having lily insignia attached on it while having absolutely no relation to their actual lily gauge. I think I will die again inside couple more times when we finally learn anything at all by 16th May lmao.

[Heroman3003]

They learned that from EW SMN apparently: "I feel like I"m -really- summoning things now!"---summon what? That's literally just some flashy VFX attached on an instant GCD.

Because previous iteration of summoner where you just spam ruin and press a button for your pet to swing a little harder once a minute felt extremely engaging and varied. Now it's also ruin spam, but at least there's some impact to the summon attacks and actual tangible feeling like summoning is happening and it's relevant to the job in some way.