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    Why should content be excluded from balance and design discussions because it’s easy

    I have raided ultimates in the past, I can still enjoy a dungeon if you give me a well designed job like PCT.

    Saying dungeon design and balance doesn’t matter works both ways, if it’s totally fine for the healer to just suck it up and deal with being an inferior role why can’t tanks suck it up and not have broken AOE self healing. If you ask for the latter though tank mains will tell you to stop taking away their fun despite dungeon design and balance not mattering when it comes to healer fun
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    As a healer main in this game for nigh on 14 years all I can say is that I’m tired. My role has been eroded of complexity and expression for 3 expansions. I’ve watched the tanks do my role for me for 2 expansions and my feedback and critiques continue to fall on deaf ears.

    I have no idea who modern healers are designed for but I know now it’s not me. This is the first expansion I’m truly considering dropping the healer role and not returning, so if that was the goal- congratulations I guess

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    Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
    Why should content be excluded from balance and design discussions because it’s easy

    I have raided ultimates in the past, I can still enjoy a dungeon if you give me a well designed job like PCT.

    Saying dungeon design and balance doesn’t matter works both ways, if it’s totally fine for the healer to just suck it up and deal with being an inferior role why can’t tanks suck it up and not have broken AOE self healing. If you ask for the latter though tank mains will tell you to stop taking away their fun despite dungeon design and balance not mattering when it comes to healer fun
    You clearly miss the point, it's easy to clear fast on solo healers and tanks, the reason why you pick tank is because of more damage lol. I don't get why this is hard to understand that dungeons in general are just boring and easy and again you can clear on most comps.

    It sure does matter both ways! I find it annoying that healers can make me using defensives feel invalid in bosses because they spam mit/shields/healing on me, but it is what it is the content is designed for everyone its not really designed for people who want a challenge, news flash tank is also pretty boring in dungeons.

    If you want to have a fun healing time on healer go play with 3 dps and 1 healer! problem solved it won't even take long.

    If you nerfed tanks to the point where healers actually had to heal a lot in dungeons then they'd be melee dps lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
    You clearly miss the point, it's easy to clear fast on solo healers and tanks, the reason why you pick tank is because of more damage lol. I don't get why this is hard to understand that dungeons in general are just boring and easy and again you can clear on most comps.

    It sure does matter both ways! I find it annoying that healers can make me using defensives feel invalid in bosses because they spam mit/shields/healing on me, but it is what it is the content is designed for everyone its not really designed for people who want a challenge, news flash tank is also pretty boring in dungeons.

    If you want to have a fun healing time on healer go play with 3 dps and 1 healer! problem solved it won't even take long.

    If you nerfed tanks to the point where healers actually had to heal a lot in dungeons then they'd be melee dps lol
    I’m responding to your point that “dungeon balance shouldn’t matter”. Not the fact it’s possible to 1H3D a dungeon

    That basic premise alone is flawed, even in simple content like dungeons each angle of the trinity should have a place to shine and a way to meaningfully contribute. You immediately go “just 1H3D” which basically amounts to “yeah healers can feel impactful in dungeons………when there isn’t a tank”.

    Meaningful contribution of an entire role in a piece of content shouldn’t be contingent on another role being bad just because said content is easy
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    As a healer main in this game for nigh on 14 years all I can say is that I’m tired. My role has been eroded of complexity and expression for 3 expansions. I’ve watched the tanks do my role for me for 2 expansions and my feedback and critiques continue to fall on deaf ears.

    I have no idea who modern healers are designed for but I know now it’s not me. This is the first expansion I’m truly considering dropping the healer role and not returning, so if that was the goal- congratulations I guess

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    Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
    I’m responding to your point that “dungeon balance shouldn’t matter”. Not the fact it’s possible to 1H3D a dungeon

    That basic premise alone is flawed, even in simple content like dungeons each angle of the trinity should have a place to shine and a way to meaningfully contribute. You immediately go “just 1H3D” which basically amounts to “yeah healers can feel impactful in dungeons………when there isn’t a tank”.

    Meaningful contribution of an entire role in a piece of content shouldn’t be contingent on another role being bad just because said content is easy
    I don't think dungeon balance should matter, it's content designed around the msq it's meant to be clearable, non standard comps clearing it is fine and is actually pretty interesting to me, I enjoy doing tankless dungeon runs or healerless runs for fun. Not all content needs the "trinity system" especially the easier stuff. It's also "yeah tanks can feel impactful in dungeons when there isn't a healer" can also apply here, as a tank player i don't really care that healers can clear dungeons without me lol. even if 1 healer and 3 dps was dungeon "meta" for speed runs I would go "oh neat".

    Problem is Tank/healer aren't really both needed to meaningful contribute one can contribute more then the other and the dungeon is still easy, honestly both can play really bad and still easily clear, so it makes sense that one good player can clear on either role it's meant dungeons shouldn't require healers to be intensely trying and learning damage profiles in a dungeon. At the end of the day is entry level content, I'm not going to be too upset that it can be cleared without the trinity system.

    Does this mean I don't think healer's shouldn't be more fun, absolutely not I think both tanks and healers are suffering because the game has been so DPS focused to the point these roles have been ignored over the years and been given defensives, healing ect. that they don't really need, but even if you tuned healer and tank in ways that made them more balanced between each other dungeons would still be doable by non standard solo support comps, if you manage to make it where tanks and healers have to contribute to the point of try harding in a dungeon then good job now casual players will not want to pick up tank and healer for having too much responsibility, which they should have... In difficult content not dungeons...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
    I don't think dungeon balance should matter, it's content designed around the msq it's meant to be clearable, non standard comps clearing it is fine and is actually pretty interesting to me, I enjoy doing tankless dungeon runs or healerless runs for fun. Not all content needs the "trinity system" especially the easier stuff. It's also "yeah tanks can feel impactful in dungeons when there isn't a healer" can also apply here, as a tank player i don't really care that healers can clear dungeons without me lol. even if 1 healer and 3 dps was dungeon "meta" for speed runs I would go "oh neat".

    Problem is Tank/healer aren't really both needed to meaningful contribute one can contribute more then the other and the dungeon is still easy, honestly both can play really bad and still easily clear, so it makes sense that one good player can clear on either role it's meant dungeons shouldn't require healers to be intensely trying and learning damage profiles in a dungeon. At the end of the day is entry level content, I'm not going to be too upset that it can be cleared without the trinity system.

    Does this mean I don't think healer's shouldn't be more fun, absolutely not I think both tanks and healers are suffering because the game has been so DPS focused to the point these roles have been ignored over the years and been given defensives, healing ect. that they don't really need, but even if you tuned healer and tank in ways that made them more balanced between each other dungeons would still be doable by non standard solo support comps, if you manage to make it where tanks and healers have to contribute to the point of try harding in a dungeon then good job now casual players will not want to pick up tank and healer for having too much responsibility, which they should have... In difficult content not dungeons...
    If “not all content needs the trinity system” then the game shouldn’t functionally enforce the trinity system in all content that’s the problem

    If I queue for a roulette that roulette needs a healer to pop. Ergo the experience of the healer shouldn’t be contingent on the tank being garbage or vice versa. This isn’t about attempting to block non standard comps. This is the fact that the pretty enforced standard comp should give meaningful ways to shine for each role and right now healers entirely lack that if the tank is half way competent

    You shouldn’t need high levels of competence for both roles just to clear a dungeon but neither should one role being competent basically make another role functionally redundant. Because you have to remember while 1H3D is possible tanks remove any meaningful impact healers can have in a dungeon even in a standard comp. You could alleviate this by giving healers something else to do but then why then is the trinity tank healer DPS and not Tank+healer, DPS and “something else”
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    As a healer main in this game for nigh on 14 years all I can say is that I’m tired. My role has been eroded of complexity and expression for 3 expansions. I’ve watched the tanks do my role for me for 2 expansions and my feedback and critiques continue to fall on deaf ears.

    I have no idea who modern healers are designed for but I know now it’s not me. This is the first expansion I’m truly considering dropping the healer role and not returning, so if that was the goal- congratulations I guess