A summary of healer issues

[BrokentoothMarch]

With the idea that healers should only heal, I be okay with that if we were required to heal at least 10% of the fight, we barely heal 3% of the time in 99% of the content. Also if players feel that way, respond with TANKs should only tank, they don't need anything besides provoke and their mitigation. I bet you half the people saying that stupid sht about the healers only should heal will go on the defensive.

That would also be okay, but sadly neither of these things will happen. Presumably a lot of AST got gutted due to complaints about it having a high barrier to entry. While I harbor no ill will to those who play more casually (I'm not some kind of elite raider myself or whatever), the fact that the intent was to dumb it down implies they won't be attempting to complicate the fights either, instead sticking to very regulated scripts. Which, as players get better and better at learning the scripts, healers become less and less required. What this means is that healers get further pigeonholed into a dull gameplay loop while the actual game continues it's course and becomes easier, which further dullens the healer gameplay loop as damage becomes easier and easier to ignore.

Then punishing the healer demographic with over-homogenizing all of us with just a 1-button DPS and a DoT? I honestly feel like the devs consider us a very late-stage afterthought. Sometimes even healers get balanced/tweaked through what seems like the perspective of a DPS/Tank player. "healer no heal enuff. healer adjust. make healer heal more damage less yes good".

If I see no changes in EW, I'm dropping WHM like a hot rock and going for a DPS, queue times be damned. I already quit for an entire expansion when SB came out and ruined AST. If fixing this is truly in the realm of impossibility, there's no reason to bother with the green DPS role anymore.