Healers losing popularity?

[HolyGlassofWater]

As a tank, I'm finding it more and more common these days to wait for a healer and on my server, I see more tanks (mainly paladins) covering the popular areas than healers (behind all the bards of course). My tank ques don't feel nearly as fast anymore, as I feel like I'm always waiting for that healer or second healer in a FP group. And this all seemed to happen after either the 2.2 launch or the ps4 game launch (I can't tell you how many brand new gladiators I see than the deserted conjurer's guild)

Now on my scholar character, I have been getting nothing but instant ques these past few weeks. The "adventurer in need" on the roulette always seems to turn up on the healer now as well. Are the healers popularity falling below the tanks?

[Velox]

I've noticed this as well. I've been seeing healer in roulette (mainly trials and main scenario) a TON these days. I'm wondering if the new tank mounts are indeed working as SE intended...or people are finally getting fed up with how boring the healer job design is (speaking of WHM mostly).

[Zendy]

As an i95 WHM, DF-ing has taken a definite turn for the worst the past few weeks with random groups attempting speed runs and then yelling at me for not keeping them all alive when the tank pulls the entire first brayflox level. Even if the DPS is a lancer and a monk! It's nerve racking to try and keep an i65 tank alive when they're "speed running" and very unrewarding when I get yelled at for running out of MP or people dying. I've pretty much stopped Que-ing in DF up on my WHM and just do party finder or not log in.

To be honest, posting on the forums is getting the same way. I'm sure someone's about to reply "U R i95 and people still die? LOL lrn to play newb you are obviously lying and you suck!" But I still post, and I'll still try the DF later just to maybe get some bonus tomes....

On the plus side, yeah the Queues do pop instantly lately.

[JeniLinsky]

I'm a PLD, so I have CNJ at 30. I've been noticing that the "adventurer in need" for mornings, East Coast US time, is almost always healer. I'll usually put on my acolyte's skirt and go into the low-level roulette with "join party in progress" checked, and almost always what I find is a party with an inexperienced / bad tank. If I give them a little tanking guidance, they generally accept it and the run goes better from there out. So my theory is that beginning healers are having trouble with beginning tanks, and not knowing how to deal with that situation.

[Grotesque]

Natural conclusion of all the "lol tank insta-queue"-babble. Now all ppl have tanks leveled and expect insta-queue

As an i95 WHM, DF-ing has taken a definite turn for the worst the past few weeks with random groups attempting speed runs and then yelling at me for not keeping them all alive when the tank pulls the entire first brayflox level.

Take a dump on their face and go to next DF group, simply ignore shit-babbling.

[SeraviEdalborez]

Just ask SE for a healer achievement mount. I'm sure that will solve all of these problems.

[Alistaire]

Kind of biased since you're a tank; obviously any party you're in has at least 1. If anything tanks are scarcest, judging by the role bonus being pretty much all for tanks on every type of roulette for the grand majority of the time.

[NorthernLadMSP]

As an i95 WHM, DF-ing has taken a definite turn for the worst the past few weeks with random groups attempting speed runs and then yelling at me for not keeping them all alive when the tank pulls the entire first brayflox level. Even if the DPS is a lancer and a monk! It's nerve racking to try and keep an i65 tank alive when they're "speed running" and very unrewarding when I get yelled at for running out of MP or people dying. I've pretty much stopped Que-ing in DF up on my WHM and just do party finder or not log in.

This is definitely a reason I have not been healing as much. Tanks coming in in their crap gear to Brayflox hard thinking their hot shi* and taking damage like their armor was made of paper. Then getting an attitude and placing blame.

[Moqi]

Fortunately I've always met nice tanks in Bray xD

I'm still alwasing missing a tank in DF. Joined with a DPS today for WP, there was a 14 minute queue...

[Lyrinn]

Just ask SE for a healer achievement mount. I'm sure that will solve all of these problems.

Please no. I don't want to imagine the horror of the influx of terrible healers that would bring.