Thread: Healers in 5.0

Eh, I'll wait to get my hands on it before forming a proper opinion, but looking over what they changed, I think they went overboard with the "balancing" of healer actions. Which is a shame because I felt like all three healers were viable and can complete any content - the only place where that balance goes wonky is when you factor in speedrunning and damage parsing. I'll still main healer, but I'm a bit disappointed.

If they're trying to get people to quit playing healers, they're going about it exactly the right way.

Poor scholar, completely gutted. They're all practically the same now, and dpsing as a healer from now on... yawn. I was hoping to go back to maining scholar as it used to be my favourite before the changes in SB, but with this news? Doubtful. Might even end up switching to dps.

I feel that unless they really up damage output/healing needed, that healer will become the new tank - aka the role that is desperately needed in parties, because a lot of career healers will be switching to more engaging jobs.

Saw someone say the following, and it really feels on point:

"I feel like the idea was to simplify the healers so that new people weren't afraid to give them a shot. But they just got rid of the interesting parts and now the existing healers are jumping ship."

Can't wait to see what queues are going to be like. I'll probably still level a healer for FC activities/runs, but I don't know if I'm going to be maining it this expansion.

Ah I see, they've taken the WoW approach to "balance."
=.=

Also congrats SE, you've managed to make cards boring. :T

At this rate, they might actually put healer mount achievements in the game to get people to play.

Yay, i guess...