A summary of healer issues

[Aravell]

Might be misremembering, but I feel like the over-reaction to the WAR change of 4.2 had a massive hand in it.

Yeah, the WAR thing did contribute to it, I recall there being a lot of noise made about it.

It would be nice if they would be open with us about job reworks in advance of the rework occurring, so that people could give feedback on the direction of it. If they showed us that they want to simplify AST even further, eg removing the delay on Star and turning it into 'remote detonation Assize', making the cards even more brain-off, etc. We could tell them, in advance, that 'this will bomb please go back to the drawing board'. But instead we're being asked, once again, 'please have faith in the people who put AST in the current state it's in, to be able to make it more fun again', and we are being kept in the dark on what that looks like. Is it any wonder that people are assuming it's like, so that the devs can do whatever idea they've scraped off the cutting room floor, without regard for how awful it actually is in practice, and once it's live it's 'too late to make big changes, we can only do potency tweaks sorry'?

I honestly do think that they don't care how job changes are received anymore. If they cared even one bit, they'd have polled the playerbase when there was the massive backlash against the healer changes in ShB or even when they got massive backlash from the removal of Kaiten. I think at this point, they're just going full speed ahead with their vision, not caring whether or not it ends in a crash.

Alternatively, maybe the devs do care, but not a single bit of our feedback is being delivered to them, so they don't know that we're not happy. Neither is a good look, honestly.