Quote Originally Posted by Bobby66 View Post
Any change they take legit would have to fit within the scope of keeping the DPS kit a limited as humanly possible. As that quote from 2021 states the idea for healer is not to conflate that healers need to do good damage while also healing. Clearly they don't trust people to do both.
The funny thing is that the current healer design makes it more punishing for new players to do damage.

As we know, newer players generally either don't know what OGCDs are or they save those for emergencies. This means that they normally spam GCD heals, and every GCD spent on not their filler is a lot of lost damage that will continue to stack up.

Contrast that with pre-ShB, where you can put up all your DoTs and not lose as much to GCD healing. In their effort to make doing damage more accessible, they've managed to make it harder to do damage for the very people that needed that accessibility in the first place.