A Message For Yoshi-P

[MintnHoney]

*Laughs in Trust System”

And then you realize that most of the Duty Roulettes show "healer in need" and have queue times upwards of 15 minutes depending on the time of day.

In all seriousness, to each their own, but most people I’ve talked to are enjoying the new update. I am. Healing is healing. As long as they don’t take away my ability to heal, I’m happy.

Meanwhile, a few of my friends played healers regularly: they're enjoying the expansion, but it's mostly that they're enjoying finally getting out of Jape-an and into a fantasy landscape, and the story that's being presented to them. When they healed, they didn't enjoy the flow of gameplay and instead tried to focus on the quests and story until they inevitably got sick of it and changed to a DPS or Tank class. Although I continue to play AST (mostly because I love the aesthetic, but also out of convenience for my group of friends), I do fall in that sentiment. I like this expansion, it's just that my experience playing as an AST hasn't often felt much like "playing" so far, and that's not a good thing.

[Reiryuu]

I've enjoyed the content-- namely dungeons and trials-- in Shadowbringers so far on WHM. I have loathed all the questing, all the solo duties, and pretty much everything in between. The story was... okay. Extremely predictable and I was able to pretty much see a lot of things coming when they were first hinted at. WHM as a job is kind of dull and bland though. All the healers seem that way. I look at dancer and wonder-- damn, why can't I have fun like that? Why can't I play a class that feels fun. I tried dancer. It's as fun as it looks.

I don't really want to play a boring, simple, watered down job in fun fights. I want to play a fun, engaging job while participating in fun fights. Is that really too much to ask? They have boiled all the healers down to plain white bread with maybe a tiny corner of butter/peanut butter or jam depending on which flavor you like to go towards and after all this time, after not having anything just to throw healers a "thanks for playing a healer" for 2 expansions now, we get the most bland and callously indifferent changes to date. While I am getting tomestones on the healer, and I'm gearing up the healer, I'm leveling my dancer and am having a lot of fun on it. Once I get it to 80.... I may just hang up the cane so I can play something that's actually fun. And, on top of that, no more of this super burdening stress Yoshi-P and the team seem to think I'm being crushed by to worry about! Yay! Healers are stressful to play so let's make them boring to play and not even throw them a bone for 2 expansions for shouldering all this stress and burden that we perceive them to have! #WTFaretheythinking

[Miiu]

Basically what MintnHoney said.
I enjoy the expansion. In terms of the main story I think this has been the best in years. I like the zone designs, I like the music, I like the dungeon designs and encounter. But when it comes to healing. The activity that I have enjoyed the most since 2.0.... Well I am not enjoying that anymore. Every time the next main story quest requires me to reach the next level I get annoyed because it means I have to go back to the most boring aspect for me at the moment. As it stands right now I'll finish the main story and then maybe bring dancer to 80 because I enjoy the support aspect of the job but after that I'll stop playing and wait to see if there will be any changes to what they have done to sch and ast. (I lack experience on whm to really talk about them)