Developers : Healer design mentality needs to change

[lulunami]

No matter how you change the healer or damage output system, the fact remains that there will always be some healers that are much more efficient than other players. The better healers will map out their strongest heals in coordination with their healer partner, tanks, and rest of party to make it safe.

Let's take for example the potency nerf to Energy Drain on SCH. That will not make good SCH use Energy Drain less. The Energy Drains they were currently using were just a gauge dump because they already planned out Sacred Soil, Excog, Lustrate, or Indomiability usage relative to the damage and other defensive abilities available from the party. This is possible because of the scripted nature of damage.

If the damage or script has a slightly more random sequence, what would happen? SCH would maybe save 1 Aetherflow stack for a Lustrate or extra Sacred Soil? It would not change much.

Better healers will always be more efficient and get more casts and optimal resource usage. Please focus on designing healing fun to play again. Fun is what matters most!