Developers : Healer design mentality needs to change

[Greyhawk]

I actually think the answer is to make more other jobs self sufficient and put less dependency on healers, not more.

Today I did E11 normal and Emerald Weapon normal. On both occasions both healers died right at the start of the fight. One was a wipe, the other we won. Difference was a Red Mage.

I’m sorry to the good healers, but I don’t want my runs to be make or break on the ability of two random strangers, which more often than not at least one is not good.

The only thing I can say about this is - The patch just came out four days ago, and quite honestly this statement makes you sound like you are expecting them to win in Savage already which was most likely their first time there to heal. I agree with you about less dependent healing!

This patch has absurdly brought out this mentality of "You should know the fights already!", when we all seem to forget the influx of new/learning players, and the content is less than five days old (I'm not saying it's you, the general mentality). I'm not making an excuse for them, because by the time they reach this point in the storyline, they should be good enough on the job to do 'decent'. What I've seen though (myself included) is walking into a new Eden as my first time healing the place and dying to a mechanic I just couldn't get out of in time. I'm sorry - not everyone has reached elite status, they are still back at wondering 'WTH is going on'.

Now, if you would have used something like LoTA, WoD, or even Copied Factory as examples of what a hot mess looks like, I'd most likely be completely agreeing with you - and it's not the new people doing dumb things there. People have gotten lazy in not getting out of bad, expecting the healers to bail then out. I'm certainly glad not to live up to those expectations to bail someone out of stupidity.