Quote Originally Posted by elioaiko View Post
I have zero faith that the devs will even blink an eye. They have ignored tanks and healers for years and we've basically have to live in a toxic relationship bc they'll throw us a bone/crumb of positive change and then make nonsensical terrible changes.

Healer role has all but been an afterthought. The healers have been lacking any creativity and we're only getting by on sfx.

So unless the dps community starts feeling the same treatment, things will be as usual. Nothing has changed since Stormblood and it hasn't changed til this very day.

Launch will happen. AST and SCH will feel awful to play and/or weak while WHM will feel super good or downright mind-numbingly weak. SGE may escape the troubles but that's bc it's a new healer, the devs will destroy it in the following patches and definitely on the next xpac.

Players will complain about how boring it is and get silence.

Then dps players complain about the long queue times enough for them to make buffs to fix what they nerfed and probably overbuff SCH and AST.

Same song and dance. It's sad but I've been around long enough to witness it.
This is another concern I have with DT and one that’s a bit more nebulous because it actually relies on the media tour so it may change.

In the current state the 4 healers are in in the media tour (and I’m not saying this because it’s a my main) SCH is going to absolutely evicerate the other 3 and it’s not even going to be close

SCH was generally regarded as the strongest healer in EW because of its capacity to basically always have more mitigation than anyone else and cheese more mechanics than anyone else with spreadlo and expedience

How did the devs decide to fix SCH- they buffed its raid buff, they buffed its personal damage extensively, they gave it 50% more uses of its strongest cooldown (recitation) and they added a button that completely deletes its one real weakness (seraphism removes its weakness to many medium damage hits in a row such as harrowing hell)

Meanwhile SGE got another regen it doesn’t need, WHM got an extender to its already super wonky mitigation that has to be used inside its current wonky mitigation and AST got the ability to press one of its two mitigations without needing to GCD heal anymore

Like the devs seem to have zero idea how high end healer balance works as they gave the biggest buffs to the strongest healer, SCH is an unmitigated monster