Here's why I will not support this healer strike.

[Saraide]

I can go through all of the pages and put up statistics too. If there is a methodology showing how the information was collected and easily verifiable, please link it here and I will stand corrected. I also randomly checked to see the progress of some of the more vocal people here and 99% did not touch anything that is beyond casual content.

And yes, you dabbed in some EX, but even so, you failed to grasp the entirety of your class. It's not just about the healing, it's also about uptime, slide casting, clipping, utilizing your entire kit effectively while executing mechanics, and having as little overheal as possible. No job is unidimensional.

Do I meet your standards?

[Kohashi]

Do I meet your standards?

Sure, acceptable. You are 1 in how many?

Since when changes are done on outliers? If you don't enjoy the role why do you insist on it?

[Saraide]

Sure, acceptable. You are 1 in how many?

Since when changes are done on outliers? If you don't enjoy the role why do you insist on it?

It isnt outliers and it's across all levels of play that people find healers unfun. That's why the thread and the amount of positive reactions it had is remarkable. For a long time I thought it really was just the raiders that are bored of playing healers but actually it turns out it's unfun for many casuals aswell. That's why they're giving feedback and why many are stopping to play healer. You say "why do you insist on it" when stopping to play healer because it's perceived as unfun is describing exactly what the plan is. Which leads me to the conclusion that you just dont like seeing critical feedback about the game being posted.

[Striker44]

It isnt outliers and it's across all levels of play that people find healers unfun. That's why the thread and the amount of positive reactions it had is remarkable. For a long time I thought it really was just the raiders that are bored of playing healers but actually it turns out it's unfun for many casuals aswell. That's why they're giving feedback and why many are stopping to play healer. You say "why do you insist on it" when stopping to play healer because it's perceived as unfun is describing exactly what the plan is. Which leads me to the conclusion that you just dont like seeing critical feedback about the game being posted.

It's unfortunate for some people to hear, but it really is outliers. There were ~1.1 million active players before DT's early access started, so figure with more people coming back we're likely closer to ~1.5 million now. The "reaction" to the "strike" post is meaningless in comparison. Just look at what's happening in-game. Tanks remain the most "in need" role (I just checked on Aether this moment and the entire roulette board is Tank). It defaults to tanks even if tanks/healers are "equally" in need, but it's just further hard evidence that the amount of people involved is minuscule compared to the playerbase.

Again, think about that. There's over a million people playing this game. You could put any position you wanted out there, and you'll find "many" people aligned with it. It doesn't mean there aren't many more taking different positions. That concept gets even further amplified when you look at the comments being made and realize that people finding it "unfun" do so for many different reasons which often completely contradict each other (which further limits the ability to usefully change anything).

Oh, and as one last note just to give a sense of numbers. The "strike" post is almost a month old and has just under 400 "likes". Someone made a positive hype video about DT on Youtube 4 days ago and it already has just over 850 "likes." The forums are just a very small sliver of the actual playerbase.

I also don't think that a few hundred out of 30+ mil players refusing to play a role will do anything in the grand scheme of things so there's that 2.

Just need to point out the number of players you're using is the total number of accounts that have been created over the entire life of the game, not the number of presently "active" ones.

[aiqa]

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The game/devs are explicitly asking people to post their feedback on the this forum. The healerstrike is just a firm feedback. That feedback isn't for you to act on. I am very sure that people giving the feedback aren't trying to adhere to your opinions about when it's worth giving feedback. So if there is anything in these feedback threads that is pointless, it's discussions about the validity of feedback on the forums.