Developers : Healer design mentality needs to change

[Packetdancer]

The only way the design for healers will ever change from what it is is if they change the way damage is dished out during encounters.

I feel a little like they might actually have been listening when people say "if you want healers to heal, give them more things they have to heal" and taking some steps in that direction with this patch; I find Emerald Weapon EX has mechanics that—while not all that complicated—do hit with a little more damage than I'd expected to see... and the autoattacks the main tank takes can seemingly chomp off enough HP in places to almost qualify as mini-tankbusters, which ain't something to sneeze at.

And someone I know commented with regards to E9S (in a mock-haunted tone) "There's nothing in here that isn't a tankbuster or a raid-wide. Nothing."

Truthfully, I'm really enjoying this patch right now because it feels like I can't solely disengage brain and rely on "yeah so I'll have this instant heal or oGCD heal available to me in another 6 seconds, and we can skate until then and just keep damaging" because if I wait that six seconds there's a chance someone is going to be dead. And yeah, some of that is due to going from people outgearing the content (in 5.3) because they have i500 gear to a scenario where i500 gear is the baseline that a fight is balanced for... but even taking that into account, it's still a bit more damage than I'd expect.

Is it wrong that I really sort of hope they keep that up?

I would happily trade Cure 1 and Fluid Aura for a couple extra DPS buttons.

*waves her "Turn Fluid Aura into an interrupt so that it's useful and I don't have to sit and watch helplessly when people fail, Yet Again, to interrupt the paralysis cast in Puppets' Bunker" sign around a bit more*

[Morningstar1337]

I feel a little like they might actually have been listening when people say "if you want healers to heal, give them more things they have to heal" and taking some steps in that direction with this patch; I find Emerald Weapon EX has mechanics that—while not all that complicated—do hit with a little more damage than I'd expected to see... and the autoattacks the main tank takes can seemingly chomp off enough HP in places to almost qualify as mini-tankbusters, which ain't something to sneeze at.

To add, my experiences in E12 normal has the raid wide, Maleficum, be close to Lethal if you have any vuln stacks and out right lethal if you have 2 (Granted I was playing BLM but still) I don't think any Raidwide outside E8S came close to killing anyone even with 1-2 vuln up stacks.

Granted my skill at avoiding AoEs on the fly is still mediocre at best but I still think that Maleficum (and Absolute Zero in Savage) might be a response to the feedback about not healing enough.