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[Folsom]

Not really, there's lots of people on this forum who are ex healers who would gladly come back to the role if they stopped making it baby mode difficulty.

There's nothing inherently satisfying with pressing 1 button and refreshing your DoT every 30 seconds when you've got jobs that literally summon primals or cause huge explosions with rotations that take some semblance of skill

Right. And the argument inherently doesn't make sense anyway; if people didn't play complicated jobs, DPS would be the job not queueing. The fact that healing is the easiest job and *still* has instant queues means people are leaving healer for other jobs. Now, correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation (it's equally likely that both healers and tanks don't queue for their respective roles because of the feeling of responsibility/fear of being blamed for any failure), but it definitely means people aren't gravitating away from healer because they're too complicated.

[Karthunk]

Anytime someone says "the player base thinks X," they're just trying to drum up support for the invisible army they wish they had because they certainly don't have any more access to that kind of information than you (or anyone else) does.

Right. And the argument inherently doesn't make sense anyway; if people didn't play complicated jobs, DPS would be the job not queueing. The fact that healing is the easiest job and *still* has instant queues means people are leaving healer for other jobs. Now, correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation (it's equally likely that both healers and tanks don't queue for their respective roles because of the feeling of responsibility/fear of being blamed for any failure), but it definitely means people aren't gravitating away from healer because they're too complicated.

Interesting