Openly admitting to ignoring the players

[BrokentoothMarch]

I believe that statement indicates they do know what most people in the forum are asking for.

It seems to me they simply decided not to go along with that idea and want us to embrace the new healer design philosophy introduced in ShB.

Honestly, I'm fine with it. It's okay for developers to disagree with the directions players want to take. Maybe most of suggestions and ideas coming from this forum are against their design philosophy.

Hopefully such design choice will turn out well.

This sounds good on paper, but then you have to realize that if you fly in the face of your community too long, regardless of whether it's the right choice or not, it's going to be the wrong one. With 6 years of no new healer, the butchering of existing ones, and no end in sight to the slaughter? Now there's nothing SE can do to slake the healing community. They've taken stab after stab after stab that any improvements will now be met with, I'd say well-deserved, skepticism and even passive-aggression.

This is not complaints and a disagreements over a singular patch. This has been brewing for multiple expansions only for it to culminate in a cute twist on "You think you know what you want, but you don't." This will not turn out well. This is a guarantee. Because it has not turned out well for years and there's no reason for that to do a 180 for literally quite no reason. Fire has not become wet in the past eternity and I have no reason to believe that will change tomorrow.

We are witnessing the final breaths of the healing class. I'm done with this boring corpse, I'm gonna go play MNK. The LL for them looked fun. I'll let the green beans handle the healing and, if the queues get too bad, I'll just use trusts.

You know, in case you guys forgot we could be replaced by legal bots.