DRK's make frontlines not fun.

[IDontPetLalas]

What, a healer that concentrates more on supporting the team and healing than dealing damage, who survives by applying DR and shields? Like a healer should be doing? How terrible.

Here, let me quote this again since you seem to have missed this at the first go-round " Healer: Low Survival, Low DPS, High Healing."

Let's play out how this works if the healer happens to get into a 1v1 - which I will admit beforehand is not a situation that we want to get into- but while rejoin the party, it's easy enough to find ourselves in that situation. Low survival and high healing- so , ideally, we don't die, but we're basically in a mode where we need to kite, heal and hope that we get help because with low DPS we won't kill anyone. I would even question the "low" survival. Why? because we're casters? Well there's one hell of an incentive to roll a healer lmao.

Interestingly enough, there are MMOs in which support and healing classes/jobs have skill trees or specs that allow them to run heal spec/hybrid/DPS spec in PVP. I've played those games, sometimes heal spec was better, sometimes DPS spec, depending upon the circumstances, however it was considered normal to have options for those classes and it was a welcome change to have distinct identities for each healer in PVP.

It should make you happy that in the present mode, there are healers who can supply DR as well as shields, as well as doing damage, while having a good time. Imagine, healers actually enjoying themselves just like any other job expects to do, that should make for better PVP.