Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
Is your argument really just "they should fundamentally change the game for everyone else so it suits me and I can play DPS on what is supposed to be a defense-oriented role"? You're not being "excluded". You have personal preferences that are different than what the developers envision. There are two other roles and a slew of other games that feature dynamic, offensive gameplay. This is one game that has one role for people who want to focus on support and defense/healing first (on a healer no less). Are you fine with "excluding" those people instead? Heck, you're playing a game developed in Japan, where the gaming culture itself leans heavily toward healers being healers first, and doing offense as an after-thought. So let's change an entire culture just to fit what you want.

And second, if you feel you can't enjoy the game because of how healers have been designed for several years now, then why are you even subscribed right now? Your argument would make more sense if they had just radically altered how healers work for DT. They haven't. Heck, earlier in your post you even mention that this is the 3rd expansion in a row with a different philosophy toward healers than what you want. If this is somehow stopping you from playing, then why are you even subbed at the moment to begin with? (Meant as a legitimate question, not implying you should unsub.)
Except the game isn’t designed with “healing and support” in mind

It’s designed so that you can hit one oGCD and get everyone up to full then when you have nothing else to do because utility and support is dead you are encouraged to do damage

Pretending like support and healing is actually a meaningful and in depth facet of this game when everyone on both sides agrees it isn’t is pointless. We all know that healing cooldowns in this game are underbaked and that true utility doesn’t exist we just argue on if the current state of healers is “fine” or not

Let’s also not forget this is how healers have always been, 14 is well known for their healers being pseudo DPS anyway, it’s been like that since the game launched, this is not a “you want something that doesn’t exist”