Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post

Your point is “if you want the healer role to be more popular you need to lower the responsibility of the healer” but then later you say “PF struggles with hard hitting raidwides that apply a DOT”. Do you know why PF struggles with these? It’s because how much the raidwide is mitigated determines the DOT damage.

Right now square is going down the path of removing healing responsibility. How do they do that……..by giving healer tools (mainly mitigation) to the other roles so the healer isn’t the single fail point. Okay but what happens when these other roles don’t use the mitigation they’ve been given? They blame………the healer
First, people aren't dumping the role "faster than usual". Its the same thing that always happens in this time frame.

As for my point, you misquoted and changed the meaning of what I wrote. I stated you need to lower the responsibility on the role to entice new players (specifically DPS) to want additional responsibility they don't have. If the role seems too gatekept, no one will ever jump into it. It is after all specifically DPS we need to switch.

PF doesn't necessarily "struggle" with a raidwide DoT but the average pf healer doesn't like it regardless.

And I'll disagree that healer gets criticism when everyone can see their mits on there characters. If I have 2 mits up for every mech, that's an everyone elses problem if we die and no one has ever dared to say otherwise. If people so much try to say it and you are doing your job on heals and mit, you can easily deflect anyone. The benefit of shifting mit off healer is exactly to change the perception of Healer role and what it's "expected" of after the fact. Meaning you train the playerbase to not expect as much from the Healer role.