Quote Originally Posted by YanderePrincess View Post
What you said implied they don't listen at all when it comes to any balance issues. Even limiting it to healers, though, the past 6 years do not agree with your statement. Just because they haven't necessarily gotten it right doesn't mean they're not listening. The community is not inherently right about how to balance things.
What we aren't fine with is the dev team who clearly has no healer mains amongst themselves and a deep seated allergy to actually listening to the community in regards to how balance needs to be carried out
This was the entire sentence. I didn't break it apart to avoid the very idea you think I implied. I apologize for the confusion but there's a reason there's no periods or breaks between those thoughts.
Thing is though they usually are. People from every side of the healer spectrum have offer input and it almost always is leagues better than what the developer's come up with, especially since none of the developers actually main healer as per their own words. The entirety of 3.0 was a mess for healer balance and the community offered critiques of many varieties to help the devs out. Not one bit was listened to and they instead made it /worse/ in 4.0 where it was clear that not a single person on that team knows what they were doing or actually talked to high end healers for their feed back. They spent the entire expansion trying to fix things and in the end /over buffed/ SCH after nerfing it into the ground, couldn't figure out how to make WHM viable, and now in 5.0 it's pretty clear they've thrown in the towel for how much complexity each healer has lost.

I love this dev team to death but they have a vision for healers that is very much at odds with almost any healer in the game, be they pure healer minded or high end Savage-DPS monsters. If they are listening at all it's with wool between their ears and an inability to look past what they think healing should be about in this game instead of what it actually is. Above all else they desperately need to hire a healer main for the design team, or coordinate with top level players for feedback. Because all the things the community have been warning about since we got the skill list and information about the upcoming nerfs? Proved true. Every. Single. One. And with added 'what the fudge' bonuses like the Aetherflow shenanigans to top it off. Something any healer main would tell them is not a good idea.

You can like the dev team and still take them to task for being inept at one part of their job. The two are not mutually exclusive and now three expansions worth of evidence show they don't know what they're doing.