Developers : Healer design mentality needs to change

[Packetdancer]

At this point, I don't see healing ever being really "fixed". Things are the way they are and that's the way they are going to be. I have given up hoping to see things change and I do not believe we will really ever see healing getting fixed. All of the new games I have seen have roles that are mostly DPS with some nice heal gimmick.

FWIW, I choose to disagree. I want to believe the simplification of healers down to more easily-balanced templates in 5.0 is in preparation for building them out in more varied ways in 6.0. A sort of "you have to tear the house down to the foundations to rebuild it properly" scenario, where in this case that means tearing the healers down to the bare bones, balancing them out, and seeing how people use them before starting to diversify.

I may be wrong, of course. But I choose to be optimistic and hope that I'm not.

Why if SE actually wants healers to heal, they need to change their encounter design mentality. All they are doing now is ruining healers.

I suspect that they've heard this and are listening and starting to tinker, because this raid tier seems to hit harder than the previous when it comes to damage amounts. That DoT in E11S is fairly spicy...

As for giving healers utility, I definitely agree there's some things they could improve there.

*waves her "Make Fluid Aura an interrupt please." placard around again*