Quote Originally Posted by Myrany View Post
As a DPS player I used to have absolute trust that healers had my back if things went sideways. I don't really have that faith as much these days. I have run into far too many healers who have the attitude of DPS don't get heals unless they happen to be caught in an area heal. I also have run into many that will not rez a DPS even after a fight no matter what. So I go into dungeons these days being pretty darn careful that I keep my 2nd wind at the ready and a stack of potions too boot. If I die I run back just as I did years ago in WoW. I find it sad how things have changed really.
It turns out that when the dev team dumbs down a role, dummies make up more of the role's population. Dummies are attracted to the role because it becomes a ticket to getting carried through fights, and skilled players abandon the role because they don't want to be carried. The resulting poor performance is then used by dummies and non-healers to clamor for further dumbing down in a never-ending ouroboros of stupidity.

Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
At this point it's starting to feel like the devs are running out of ideas on how to meaningfully improve the job kits in general given that almost everything introduced in DT is either bloated potencies gated behind one/two minute cooldowns, overkill healing utility for DPS, or more mitigation/healing CD bloat for tanks/heakers.
Partly, it's because the job design team is the same four people who started in ARR, even though we now have twice the number of jobs in the game.

Partly, it's because CBU3 has designed themselves into a corner, by warping the entire game around two-minute bursts (on offense) and one-shots (on defense). If you look at WoW, you can see that there are many more things healers can do, if you have fights that aren't just Dance Dance Revolution in disguise.

Partly, it's because every game has a finite design space, and if you keep adding new things to jobs, you're eventually going to run out of space. Honestly, I think that the approach to class/job design in MMOs should be to stop changing the job once it's in a good place. Then, if players want to try new things, that's what new jobs are for. You don't need to keep adding still more finishers and bloat, or removing job identity and homogenizing the jobs, just to give players an illusion that VerThisIsTheLastRdmFinisherWeSwearForRealThisTime changes their play in any meaningful way.