Incentivize healer queues with mount achievements like for tanks

[zeopower6]

As a healer main I don't really struggle with this but many people I know really have to deal with a lack of healers. I think the first step to filling the pool with healers is doing something like the tiger/lion/bear/panther mounts via achievements for healers. There are a lot of the animals already there too from PvP! (Swan, owl, and elk) If we get a 4th healer, that one could get like a flamingo or maybe an eagle.

I hope they can do this for the sake of DPS/tank queues for things like leveling and such. It would be great and would make for some cool mounts!

[Shougun]

Flamingo lol. I can see that being a love it or hate it mount .

A max tier elk sounds amazing though, something something like Lord of the Rings, which leads me into thinking of Studio Ghibli's Yakul and Forest Spirit.. Both of those would be epic :3.

On a personal level I think it would be interesting if every job has some sort of special unlock for playing it quite a bit, that healers getting a special mount can help but would be nice if that healers didn't feel the only reason to play healer is because of an extra mount lol (meaning to say hopefully the issues some healers feel are addressed in some way, either through a new job that does what they're looking for or general changes if necessary).

[Derby_Crash]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

[EaMett]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

Woah, calm down Satan. /s

[Anienai]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

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[Gemina]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

This.

To add, mounts are a poor incentive. Since you earn them once and you're done, they invite players who couldn't care less about the role or how they perform while playing one. You only need to look at your average pug tank. You know how rare it is to see a tank use Arm's Length and Reprisal with large pulls? These role skills are powerful mitigation tools, especially when used together, or one or the other along with a stronger CD. Those who care about tanking and performing well will know about and utilize skills like these, and just become acquainted with their entire toolkit altogether. Those just after the mount will at best just perform their minimum requirement for the duty.

It would be the exact same for healers, which I am willing to wager is the reason why they don't have a role specific mount. They have not stated this, but they also don't need to.

[wereotter]

It would be the exact same for healers, which I am willing to wager is the reason why they don't have a role specific mount. They have not stated this, but they also don't need to.

More likely healers don't have mounts because, until this expansion there was rarely a shortage of them. Now that they introduced a fourth tanking job with a rotation that's, honestly, more interesting than tanking jobs have historically been, and now that they made stance dancing go away for tanks, people have been more interested in playing the job. But before that, Square was doing anything it could think of to get people to just play tank at all. If healers do indeed get an overhaul next expansion with another job option, the shortage of healers in the wild will likely go away, and the need to provide incentive to play the role will go away with it.

Also to the original point, mounts don't really do much to incentivize people to play the role, just look at how often PF groups go up to farm an easy fight with 8 tanks just so people can get their mounts... would be the same thing if they added healer mounts.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

It would be the exact same for healers, which I am willing to wager is the reason why they don't have a role specific mount.

Well, there is that Unicorn.

[ForteNightshade]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

More or less this. I still enjoy White Mage to an extent, but I literally do almost nothing but spam Holy and Glare. That gets old pretty damn fast.

[SenorPatty]

Could also incentivize healers to queue by actually making healers more fun to play and actually listen to player feedback.

Welp, time to close the thread. Reason has spoken.