Healer boycott in 5.0

[Brandedblade]

Instant ques and adventurer in need bonuses, here I come!

[Ftail]

Shadowflare wasn't just an AOE ability. It and energy drain pushed scholar to have significantly higher potency over a minute than white mage...

Energy Drain and Shadowflare weren't the reason SCH had higher DPS. SCH being able to heal with oGCD abilities, and being more mobile caused them to have higher DPS than WHM. WHM literally has to stop DPS to heal, SCH can weave in their heals with their DPS. If you compare DPS between SCH and WHM on a target dummy WHM wins, it's because of the issues I mentioned that WHM lags behind on DPS. This isn't even taking into account the abhorrent lack of Utility WHM has.

Stop trying to justify the removal of SCH abilities.

[Scox]

So punish yourself to send a message? Oh boy, that will show them. Words my bruv, those work wonders, the devs are listening.

[Almostward]

Well since they ruined my Astro I'm not healing in ShB. I'm going to Gunbreaker so I still get instant ques

[zombunnies]

So punish yourself to send a message? Oh boy, that will show them. Words my bruv, those work wonders, the devs are listening.

Well to be fair. If one doesn't like playing healer anymore, wouldn't the punishment be trying to power through and forcing yourself to do it?

[Kabooa]

Well to be fair. If one doesn't like playing healer anymore, wouldn't the punishment be trying to power through and forcing yourself to do it?

The issue with a boycott is that boycotts aren't effective without hitting the bottom line.

Changing your job isn't a boycott, because you're still giving money to SE.

I'm sure it feels good to sign on to this, but it ultimately doesn't do a thing.

[Rivxkobe]

Boycotts hardly, if ever, work though.

I'd say play the jobs and then give feedback about what you like and don't like.

I may pick up SCH again after dropping it when HW came out for AST but I dunno. DNC and GNB are defintely going to be time sinks before I look into playing a Healer.

[darcstar62]

Unless you can get Urianger and Alphinaud to join the boycott, I don't think it will have any effect at all.

[Alathon]

Unless you can get Urianger and Alphinaud to join the boycott, I don't think it will have any effect at all.

That is true if the goal is to inflict lousy queue times on other players, so as to pressure them into whining on behalf of gutted healer mains. A doubtful enterprise in my estimation, more likely to encourage others to think healers suck and deserve to suck.

If the goal is to alter SE's internal metrics regarding job use, playing something else will work and is the only way to do it.

[Gula]

Instant ques and adventurer in need bonuses, here I come!

*high fives*