General Community Resistant to Healer Damage?

[Elladie]

The entire "people who enjoy the role are in game and not the forums" isn't a good argument. At least not as a means to undervalue the importance of the negative feedback provided (consistently) on these forums regarding healers. There's an entire field built around customer feedback and how feedback numbers (negative or positive) can be translated into general customer satisfaction. Not only this but negative feedback is much more likely to domino effect and spread than good feedback. So in that regards it's even more important.
Of course, as others have pointed out it's also much harder to find healers this expansion than it ever has. And even harder to find career healers. There's a healer drought when it comes to statics for instance. This tends to indicate that even in game satisfaction is pretty low.
Besides, like I said, how boring you find the class is going to be tied to which skill tier you belong to. If you're casual, haven't tried to optimize your gameplay (or simply don't care because you don't find it fun) then current healers are going to be just fine. The first half of the cognitive flow chart for healers is normal. It's in the later half that it just strays right into "boring".

My point being - since I didn't want to repeat myself - I don't know anyone in game who uses the forums, and I've been playing since 2010, but I know plenty of people in game who are happy with their healers and don't find them boring. Myself included. Only one of those people is a raider these days ( he doesn't raid on a healer tho ) but many of us have raided in the past, so I wouldn't exactly describe any of us of casual. I do know people who have only recently started playing too, and they are having fun with healing. I'm not sure what your digression into customer satisfaction added to your argument: actually it more supports my inference that the forums are not an accurate reflection of how the largest section of healers in game feel about the role. Of course we are both most likely to play in and be part of a community that echoes our play styles, but I would imagine SE has a much more accurate breakdown of satisfaction than either of us and will act accordingly

If you frame your points in such a manner - basically you are saying that if you're not bored as a healer, you're a bad healer - I'm not surprised that you meet with negativity. I don't claim by any means to be a top tier player at any role, unlike yourself, but this is more because I'm old these days, I don't have the reaction speed or memory that I used to, and new fights take me longer to learn. But my experience is that my skill set - the average player who wants to do the best they can - is what makes up the biggest part of the player base; my experience in game certainly gives credence to that. So I imagine SE will be paying attention to what that section of the community thinks about healers in order to retain the most players in the role.

Again, I wanted to avoid repeating myself, but you clearly haven't read my other posts. Why is pressing 1,2,3 more engaging than pressing 1,1,1? Especially if 3 depends on you pressing 1 and then 2 and not having to interrupt to heal the melee who ignored the red marker on the ground because 'mah deeps'?