A summary of healer issues

[tikiwiki]

Yoshida: We believe trying to heal as little as possible and DPSing instead isn’t what a Healers role should be, so we adjusted all 3 Healers to be more balanced while keeping their original characteristics alive.

this was from a jp interview pre-shb that got translated and i think most people will agree here that they didn't achieve this at all so now the question is do they keep trying to chase this or embrace what the game is like they did for tanks sadly we wont know until 6.0 is about to come out with the lack of communication healers get so hopefully all these threads we've had complaining get listened to but i doubt it.
good post op i agree with most of it i hope we see any positive change in 6.0.

[elioaiko]

It's truly applauding that SE is silent on healer issues. Same goes for tanks, the only time this expansion they even acknowledged healer issues was whenever AST came out in that horrible state and the whole energy drain situation with SCH. Other than saying thy the cards were staying, nothing. But they are very quick to discuss DPS jobs. It's like they think healers and tanks don't exist. I just wish that they would be more transparent and actually try to look into things without brushing it off because they have supposedly overpowered SMN to worry about instead of SCH's fairy ghosting abilities.

With their track record tbh, they will likely continue to chase that full time healer dream until there's literally no more healers in queues.

I'm of the opinion that while they should balance out the healers they have now, not adding a healer will probably further divide the playerbase. It's sad when other MMOs and games with healer roles get treated better and actually get new jobs/classes. Having only 3 healers in 6.0 would be quite tragic especially if the overhaul again doesn't stick the landing (which I'm not super hopeful for).

[KDSilver]

this was from a jp interview pre-shb that got translated and i think most people will agree here that they didn't achieve this at all

Not only they failed achieving this, but it's "worse" than before.
A quick look at data and the current healers toolkit too see that this insane amount of powerful oGCD heal made the nuke button explode.

That's the consequence of giving more healing option but keeping the encounter design the same.