Developers : Healer design mentality needs to change

[Payadopa]

The typical healbot has maybe 60% uptime pressing their buttons and usually neglects key parts of their toolkit in favor of spamming Medica II, Regen, AspHelios or Succor endlessly. If fights started demanding 90%+ uptime and full efficient use of the healing toolkit, they simply wouldn't be able to do it. They tend to panic heal in high damage situations, rather than calmly combine oGCD's and burst heals and would empty on resources in the first minute or two. A playstyle where all healers always needed to be healing would be significantly more difficult than healing and doing decent dps under the current game design.

But at the same time you're not allowing people to learn on that front. I agree, if the healing system were to change over night many would struggle but why can't it be allowed to ramp up?

And while we're at it, the outleveling of content by way of ilvl shouldn't be as severe. It only leads to bad habits like 'should I ignore mechanics and keep DPSing?', only to get pounded into the dirt when you do current content. haha

[Liam_Harper]

But at the same time you're not allowing people to learn on that front. I agree, if the healing system were to change over night many would struggle but why can't it be allowed to ramp up?

If you mean by more healing required then that's a different topic and one I agree on. I'm all for that. But there would still be downtime and we'd still need to fill it.