Yoshida stating they're making WHM easier?

[Rosa_Frandlia]

Let's hope this is just in regards to lilies or a new job gauge..... WHM can heal despite them, not because of them.

[Gemina]

It's a tutorial/casual class before moving on to playing real Healers like Astro and Scholar. Stop playing White Mage.

One could argue that WHM is the only real healer, because it seems to me that your definition of a real healer is one who can still do it while providing more DPS and raid utility. Two aspects that are more in line with a support role, not a healer.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

When you see they don't want to release a new healer because of balancing issue (excuse), and the only thing we have is "make WHM easier", we can just be afraid of how they will handle the whole healer things.

Seriously, I wonder if there's any possibility that this was a translation error or something because... I mean I just don't get it. Maybe they didn't say WHM but healers in general? AST could definitely be made easier. I mean, literally any other job in the game could be made easier, just not WHM...

[Jxnibbles]

Might as well delete the class already. It is already braindead to play and they have no idea what to do with it.

[ForgottenScholar]

Its simply the only healer you can access from lvl 1, so its becoming simpler to engage newer players to healing classes. Healing is one of the areas this game, along with tanking, where few players wish to play due to the demands on them to not only heal, but to duff, debuff and maintain adequate dps. Only few healers main the role, as with tanks, and it has been a problem for as long as I can remember, with me giving up healer maining during HW because I was fed up of all the arguing and toxicity over the best way to play the role.
Simplifying that specific job to allow more engagement is a good thing, as long as they dont dumb down the job too much. Adding a new healer wont serve this area as it would be until lvl 60 and with the new expansion.
When they have to add a trust system to new content to help with dungeon queue times for dps that says alot about player distribution into the relevant roles, maybe we should wait and see what they do in May live letter before we start yet another toxic arguing match with nothing but one comment from a live letter. With more and more WOW refugees coming over having an easier role job can surely be a good thing for the life of this MMO?

[EaMett]

I kept wondering if this was a translation issue. I mean ok we can complain about devs being disconnected from healer needs but clearly WHM does not need to be easier, even they should know this.

Maybe he meant that competing with other healers is hard and that it should be easier? Or maybe they made changes to WHM and it's currently too hard to play in their test runs and want it to be simpler?

[lordcruxis]

I want to believe that this is a communication error, and what the intent was that whm will be easier to play endgame content as, meaning it's more useful

[Rosa_Frandlia]

I had another thought, didn't they say HP bars would now be above characters? Is this possibly what it was about too?

[Miziliti]

If he said he wants to make AST or SCH easier, I would at least have a little bit of understanding, but WHM??????????????????

The most simplistic healer of all? I'm like what ever at this point. I heard somehow healing will go through an entire overhaul in 5.0. Hopefully it will be worth it.

[Lozza]

This statement has come up for discussion in a few threads now. The best people have been able to come up with is an increase in WHM mobility and more ogcds. Between this weird idea of simplifying WHM, the "balance" excuse as the reason for no new healer, and the general statement that WHM is a pure healer that SE has put out time and time again I have to wonder whether the devs play this game at all - and if they do they clearly aren't playing as a healer. Any time a job that does (relatively) little dps, but can bring a skill (or many skills) that will increase the dps of other bigger dps jobs, of course that job will be wanted. The devs honestly just seem to bury their heads in the sand on this. The only way to fix this would be to increase dmg to the point where the WHM heal kit can get a real work out and that will likely make the game too hard.