Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
I think their insistence on the stance of 'healers shouldn't feel like they're forced to do damage' is hamstringing them in so many ways that they themselves might not even realize. Just accepting the idea that, if we're going to have 90% of our gameplay time in certain content be 'do a damage action', and adding more damage actions to fill that time with more variety, well, the creativity will naturally start flowing more, and they'll likely find all sorts of 'new' ways to expand the Healers and make them feel distinct from one another again
They're not even actually following their stance that they keep reiterating. Week 1 savage clears are mathematically impossible with the healers both doing 0 damage, so healers have to be doing damage anyway.

Also the changes that they made past HW have been making it easier and easier to deal damage as a healer, so the community will start pressuring healers more and more to spend all their GCDs on damage spells.

I still believe that if they wanted healers to not be forced to do damage, they'd keep the old system where there's actually a danger of wiping when you force the healer to do damage.