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[BaconBits]

Haha part of that is sorta true. We are the reason your que popped. Making healing more complex only makes less people play it or play it well.

Bad healers existed before the healing role as a whole got dumbed down, and now they're more prevalent than ever before, despite healing being in its simplest incarnation. The only thing the devs accomplished was alienating veteran healers enough to make them abandon the role or the game itself, leaving a void behind that quickly filled up with players that spam their aoe gcd heals when only one person is taking damage and only read tooltips far enough to know that Cure 1 spam can proc freecure, and even then it's a toss up if they even use it.

[AFuzzyMu11in]

I agree with this. But this is a design failure. Instead of forcing players to outsource to YouTube etc to get better the game itself should be teaching you.

[ReynTime]

Bad healers existed before the healing role as a whole got dumbed down, and now they're more prevalent than ever before, despite healing being in its simplest incarnation. The only thing the devs accomplished was alienating veteran healers enough to make them abandon the role or the game itself, leaving a void behind that quickly filled up with players that spam their aoe gcd heals when only one person is taking damage and only read tooltips far enough to know that Cure 1 spam can proc freecure, and even then it's a toss up if they even use it.

This applies to every job in XIV too actually.

Apologists love to claim the dev team needed to make things less complex so fewer people will mess up. But people will just continue to mess up regardless. All the dumbing down of combat does is make the people who try at all to become more bored.