Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
I simply think most healers want a CLEAR explanation of what the developers think healers should be doing with down time. Because clearly "Fun Comes First" isn't their mindset anymore.
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I'm just not sure how gutting our downtime tools even achieved the goal of "heal more." It's like how, growing up, I'd have video games taken away as my punishment for getting poor grades. It didn't encourage me to study more at all, it just encouraged me to learn sneaky ways to evade the ban. The punishment did not achieve its desired effect- it just made me doing my day-to-day activities more anxiety-inducing and less enjoyable. Healers don't need to wind up with bad grades like me- they need positive reinforcement to encourage good downtime kit usage, not... not THIS.



Quote Originally Posted by NobleWinter View Post
Has the Development Team ever done this for any Role in the Game or any particular Class? It would be awesome to finally see what the real goal and vision is for Healing because a lot of what's discussed in this very forum is what they 'might' be trying to do and sometimes it seems like the design choices conflict with every possible scenario we come up with. It's frustrating when you really want to enjoy Healing but it keeps morphing into something less and less enjoyable every expansion.

Yes, it would be fairly unprecedented... But, we live in unprecedented times that have caused unprecedented main-patch delays. Since every hour of work spent tweaking jobs is only as efficient as (guessing 50 minutes spent in the office, it's all the more important to have a two-sided discussion. Likewise for dev-time considerations, I don't want to waste my energy giving feedback about how I think the current AST card system can be improved if the devs are only seeking feedback about other aspects of healers, no matter how much I think that system could indeed be improved. The thing is, I have no idea what goals of theirs are totally inflexible (the pessimist part of my brain feels like it's "all of them," whatever those goals even ARE), so I'd really love to hear detailed thoughts about what they are willing to budge on, especially to get more fresh ideas that aren't 'Let's Homogenization Time, Yayyyyyeee'.