Openly admitting to ignoring the players

[BrokentoothMarch]

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Am I saying it's impossible they surprise me? Of course not. However, we both must admit that being told nearly outright that they will be ignoring our disdain for these changes while revealing no alternative nor extending any olive branch has good cause to dishearten some and enrage others. If they have something in the works to change the course of where healers are going, this is a very poor way of saying it. Even simply acknowledging the complaints in good faith would have been better, as it's been becoming something of a meme that healers simply get ignored.

Instead? They shush us.

This is a pretty blatant show that they intend to stay the course so many of us have complained about. If they stay this course, then this will fail. That much is guaranteed. If they change things, then naturally I can no longer be certain what the future of healer balance is. I desperately want the latter case to happen, but they seem to refuse to do this. Even if tomorrow they changed everything, we're still going to have malcontents. Rightfully so because, once again, six years of being ignored, going on seven, is not something you can recover from by just doing everything you were supposed to do in the first place (Be it giving the changes the community desires or changing the philosophy that plagues this archetype in another way). We do not reward the man who removes rats from our home if he's the one who released them in the first place.

Sadly, after so long, we can no longer have any faith in "Maybe's" or "Hope". I can hope that the ground one day turns to gold, but you'd know better, yes? You'd call me silly and damn rightfully so. This is quickly approaching that level of morbid consistency.


As for the tangent with the Trusts: You can replace DPS and Tanks with the Scions, but we both can't sit here and pretend like they're any good at it. I've wiped when I healed my Trusts because the DPS' are laughably incompetent (I'm going to sit outside the hit zone and do literally nothing the entire time) and the Tank ones have done outright bizarre behaviors with enough reliability that I'd honestly save myself the pain and teach a green bean how to tank with how much less painful that'd be. The healer, however? Never messes up. Never skips a beat. Though, to be fair, how can you mess up 3 buttons?

Admittedly anecdotal on that last bit, but the experience has left me no less embittered as this was seen as a favorable alternative to just... making the needed jobs more enticing to try, whether it be healer OR tank. Tanks being an archetype that seem to be noticing similar undesirable changes that healers have been undergoing.

No, but it's different, you see.

I don't know how, but it is.

Very helpful passive-aggression, but it's considered good form to wait for a response before you start madly chomping at someone who has to critically think for you. Would you care tackling the bulk of the argument instead of needling at the convenient one or are you just here to start fights?