So, what do the JP players think?

[Iscah]

I can't speak Japanese myself and got this from a friend, so take it with a huge bag of salt but I've been told that while my social circles love to complain about garbage tanks not pressing their mitigation buttons, apparently the big topic in JP is healers not healing, so they want tanks to be able to keep themselves alive? Again, can't verify it.

So is that perhaps driven by the prevailing attitude in English speakers that you should try to heal as little as possible and let people's HP get as low as it safely can? Or do the Japanese players do that too?

If there's a mismatch in how different cultures think the healer should be acting, I can see that being a source of them getting spooked, JP tanks ask for more self-sustain and get it, EN "calculated minimum" healers see this as a reason to keep the tank even less healed up, and it turns into a vicious cycle driving both role designs to a weird place?

[PercibelTheren]

So is that perhaps driven by the prevailing attitude in English speakers that you should try to heal as little as possible and let people's HP get as low as it safely can? Or do the Japanese players do that too?

If there's a mismatch in how different cultures think the healer should be acting, I can see that being a source of them getting spooked, JP tanks ask for more self-sustain and get it, EN "calculated minimum" healers see this as a reason to keep the tank even less healed up, and it turns into a vicious cycle driving both role designs to a weird place?

Do most healers actually do "calculated minimum", though? Not in my experience. Most healers I see don't try to keep the tanks topped off but they do try to keep their HP reasonably high. It's not like EN healers are constantly keeping tanks with their trigger finger on their invulns.