Open letter to our beloved Yoshi-P. As main healer, the burden of the new difficulty

[Teno]

1_ There's no burden on healers, you put a burden on yourself, not healers. And so, it's a git gud issue.
2_ Same every expansion when everyone has abysmal gear.
3_ If people just keep dying and eating aoes over and over, leave them on the floor.

Damn I hope the devs never see this thread. A fail or two and people just collapse, wtf.

Again, just git gud. Game is easy enough that a modicum of challenge shouldn't be met with a mental breakdown.... Or this whole thread is an elaborate troll in which case gg.

[MrVavadidi]

I added an edit for clarification at the top of my post.

[MrVavadidi]

1_ There's no burden on healers, you put a burden on yourself, not healers. And so, it's a git gud issue.
2_ Same every expansion when everyone has abysmal gear.
3_ If people just keep dying and eating aoes over and over, leave them on the floor.

Damn I hope the devs never see this thread. A fail or two and people just collapse, wtf.

Again, just git gud. Game is easy enough that a modicum of challenge shouldn't be met with a mental breakdown.... Or this whole thread is an elaborate troll in which case gg.

If you read well my post, you can see that I don't speak about casual cases.
Do I put a burden on myself ? Maybe. Is it a "git gud" issue ? No.

[EponaTBHSMH]

Edit 1 - 24/07/2024 - 18h00 GMT+2 :
After reading comments from here and beyond, I come to a clarification of what confuse me with the new changes.

Until the start of Dawntrail jobs were "simple", DPS are DPS, Tanks are DPS with tanking abilities and Healers are DPS with healing abilities. I have always hated this way of doing things but I have abdicted and came along. What do the game want from healers ?

What is crushing me right now is that I am brainwashed by this DPS first thing. Should we keep the "high" DPS standard from before and push our healing standard ? Are we finally became healers and shift the "high" DPS to "High" healing ?

If the later is the answer, I will be one of the most happy healer.

For savage, so we just dont know yet.

In normal you do whatever is best for you to clear, if you gotta heal someone through their bleed/vuln you do it, if you gotta res you do it when you can while being safe, if nobody is taking extra damage and you're idle, you DPS, that's pretty much it.

Remember that the only reason you might be feeling overwhelmed is because people are taking damage, in which case you focus on healing them rather than doing DPS, that's what a healer does

[Iedarus]

I decided to play Adventure Quest 3D for a laugh and found Healer to be more engaging than healers in this game. Oh look, my regen turns into a burst damage spell that I can charge up the more I hold my regen! I also have a damage spell that gives my team and I more damage, and I can combo that with my regen burst attack for maximum damage! Two frigging spells that have more creativity put into them then so many abilities in the healer role. In a f2p game.

Complexity and creativity are good for your brain. You'll live.

[EjCross04]

I decided to play Adventure Quest 3D for a laugh and found Healer to be more engaging than healers in this game. Oh look, my regen turns into a burst damage spell that I can charge up the more I hold my regen! I also have a damage spell that gives my team and I more damage, and I can combo that with my regen burst attack for maximum damage! Two frigging spells that have more creativity put into them then so many abilities in the healer role. In a f2p game.

Complexity and creativity are good for your brain. You'll live.

I think this game had in mind to make healers more proactive at first and all that changed with the many complaints from ARR/HW. Where healers kept spamming dps skills an forget to heal tanks and complained that casting was to slow. Then had to make tanks more independents because healers complained that they felt stressed doing their job because of the out of place feedbacks of the teammates blaming them. After that came the complaint that one healer was better than the other because of their diverse kits so homogenization occurred and so on until recently.

Now most of the posts are wanting to take the jobs back to HW or SB with downtime complexity. In the end it all happened because of the complains that ended up as feedback. Hopefully we learn to understand that complexity is not a bad thing, learning how a job works doesn’t take anything from you even if you’re a casual player. And a level of difficulty is good in a game environment.

[Silver-Strider]

I think this game had in mind to make healers more proactive at first and all that changed with the many complaints from ARR/HW. Where healers kept spamming dps skills an forget to heal tanks and complained that casting was to slow. Then had to make tanks more independents because healers complained that they felt stressed doing their job because of the out of place feedbacks of the teammates blaming them. After that came the complaint that one healer was better than the other because of their diverse kits so homogenization occurred and so on until recently.

Now most of the posts are wanting to take the jobs back to HW or SB with downtime complexity. In the end it all happened because of the complains that ended up as feedback. Hopefully we learn to understand that complexity is not a bad thing, learning how a job works doesn’t take anything from you even if you’re a casual player. And a level of difficulty is good in a game environment.

The most complaints that happened in regards to healers back in ARR/HW revolved around Cleric Stance, which got removed in SB. Everything after SB was oversimplification for the sake of it that has gone overboard, by Yoshi-P admittance no less. There's nothing left to discuss if even the Devs acknowledge that they've gone overboard with simplification.

[IDontPetLalas]

I think this game had in mind to make healers more proactive at first and all that changed with the many complaints from ARR/HW. Where healers kept spamming dps skills an forget to heal tanks and complained that casting was to slow. Then had to make tanks more independents because healers complained that they felt stressed doing their job because of the out of place feedbacks of the teammates blaming them. After that came the complaint that one healer was better than the other because of their diverse kits so homogenization occurred and so on until recently.

Now most of the posts are wanting to take the jobs back to HW or SB with downtime complexity. In the end it all happened because of the complains that ended up as feedback. Hopefully we learn to understand that complexity is not a bad thing, learning how a job works doesn’t take anything from you even if you’re a casual player. And a level of difficulty is good in a game environment.

I don't recall those complaints. Nor do I recall anything of the nature of healers asking for "tanks getting to be more independent because healers are stressed due to getting blamed". Nor have i ever seen is the justification for homogenization among healers every being tied to any comparisons from players, it isn't at all atypical that some segment might complain that one job has a better skill than another. That doesn't necessitate homogenization.

[Ramiee]

I decided to play Adventure Quest 3D for a laugh and found Healer to be more engaging than healers in this game. Oh look, my regen turns into a burst damage spell that I can charge up the more I hold my regen! I also have a damage spell that gives my team and I more damage, and I can combo that with my regen burst attack for maximum damage! Two frigging spells that have more creativity put into them then so many abilities in the healer role. In a f2p game.

Complexity and creativity are good for your brain. You'll live.

AQ3D is slept on hard it's a very fun little mmo. It and runescape are the two MMOs I play on my phone a lot they are very fun.

[Purrnauskis]

Crazy. And here I thought healers were #Healerstrike partly because threat level was too low outside of savage/ultimates.

Does Kanye West main healer?