Live Letter Response to Current Healer Accuracy Issues

[HPDelron]

Considering that they have made the exact opposite decisions when designing new expert dungeons by placing more gates around the map so you can't pull half the dungeon at once I'm pretty sure the current system where healers do loads of DPS is what they intend.

If they intended that they'd be putting accuracy on healing gear, focusing on DPS as a core role of healers in all these new newbie training exercises they do (rather than mentioning as "it's nice if you can" aside), they might even be dropping the healer pretense entirely and just change the role name to "Support" or something. In addition the designers have been vocal on the state of things. While I wouldn't say their tone is alarmed or surprised, I think the healers-as-DPS-that-also-sometimes-heal thing is more of a side-effect of other decisions than a core design goal itself.

[Deceptus]

Just get rid of accuracy. It's not a "fun" stat and only exists to hit the required number and then forget about it.

[Fernosaur]

Just get rid of accuracy. It's not a "fun" stat and only exists to hit the required number and then forget about it.

This would make everyone's lives happier, tbh.

[Snow_Princess]

I am commenting here, even though the thread is old, because of the fan fest. I wonder if this was talked about here before? I hear it in the game a LOT

"The accuracy stat is completely useless. Just get rid of it completely and let your item level determine accuracy. There is no reason you should be able to enter say a 230 entry DF, be in 250 + and miss."

~~~Momo

[Iromi]

Didn't they say at fanfest they are removing acc for healers in 4.0? Idr...but I wanna say they did...

[Rennies]

Don't get our hopes up. As happy as any sane person would be with the removal of Accuracy, there are those who believe the illusion of "choice" is worth the frustration.

[ccrocker58]

...if you simply increase the damage to the point healers have to heal regularly, the HP would be flying around like a ping-pong ball or a black mages mana, which would make the whole thing immensely stressful to deal with. If you ever healed in the Feast, you can catch a glimpse of what that would look like.

I don't think that's a good way to go about it.

Healers actually being forced to heal constantly? Health bars constantly fluctuating? I...fail to see how this is a bad idea...like this sounds kinda like what most healers are expecting when they pick up the role. Or maybe that was just me?

[Kabzy]

Healers actually being forced to heal constantly? Health bars constantly fluctuating? I...fail to see how this is a bad idea...like this sounds kinda like what most healers are expecting when they pick up the role. Or maybe that was just me?

More damage output would be nice. Enough to not allow one healer to DPS 100% of the time.

However, the majority of healers atm can't even figure out how to stance dance. If they were to tune up damage to that point, suddenly people will not complain about healer DPS, but instead about people dying all the time. This would make the role a lot more pressurised, and in turn I could only speculate a lot of people would drop playing healers. Also, some healers do like to contribute DPS, so personally I would not want any damage output to get to that extreme.

[Rennies]

I want more damage output, but I also want to keep my Cleric Stance. It'll increase the skill cap of the healer role very much. Right now it's painfully easy.

[whiskeybravo]

I can't see them increasing healer damage. They've stated before that tanks and healers have higher survivability and therefore deal less damage. As far as accuracy goes, it does seem strange that they'd design content for healers to have time to do damage, but then set the accuracy so high they mostly miss. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other for what should be done with accuracy, it's current purpose seems to be for limiting the amount of other stats you can stack and somewhat gating areas (not just end game content, but if you're leveling and trying to fight higher level mobs than you should be, maybe for challenge log, even if you "could" kill them you mostly miss and end up dying lol)