Healers need an overhaul

[Deceptus]

"Existential crisis"? SMH man.

Look, I can understand that for many healers, it is currently in a state that makes it difficult to enjoy. But when terms like this is just thrown out there, it becomes very easy to see that the problem is not just with healer design. It's also with the healers themselves.

I can't and won't try to speak for things on a savage level. I can only speak as a player who has used all four healers up to Barb EX, and what they are going through isn't an existential crisis.

It becomes an existential crisis for the role when decent / good players actively aren't bringing healers to fights.

The first two EXs of Endwalker were done without healers at all when they were current, and single healing EX content is common.

Savage has been completed without healers.
Ultimates were completed without healers.

No other role is that disposable. So yes, it literally is an existential crisis for the entire role.

As usual, I default to if you want more DPS options, play a DPS job.

Great, lets have Tanks dumbed down to a single main Aggro generating skill, a 30 second DoT, a single AoE, and 10 mitigations or so that they don't really need. Can't have tanks be complex, tank anxiety is real.

Oh wait, the tanks would riot.

"If you want DPS options, then Play a DPS" is not a reasonable critique or response because it's not applied evenly or fairly across the roles. There is a blatant double standard and has been for years.