Thread: Please Share Updates on 8.0 Job Design

Originally Posted by YovelaLindswood

I remember back before shb released yoshi p said healers were in an unbalanced state and they were going to homogenize them as a baseline and expand them out in the expansion after that. I don't believe anything that man says anymore. Too many lies to believe. I also only resubbed recently for occult crescent and was sorely disappointed. Back before ARR was released yoshi p said in an interview that one of the biggest problems was 1.0 prioritized graphics over gameplay. Which is exactly where we are now where everything looks gorgeous but the content itself is hollow as can be. I honestly have 0 faith in SE. I just hope they don't fail so blizzard still has a reason to improve and be competitive.

What’s really sad about this was the “unbalanced” part about healers was that White Mage was underpowered because they took a very stubborn stance that White Mage’s identity was pure healing and anything else would clash with that identity, leaving White Mage with nothing to compete with the offensive support and utility found on the other healers. Rather than doing the obvious thing and actually giving White Mage more than just raw heals and damage, they decided gutting the entire role was the only solution.

Originally Posted by ty_taurus

What’s really sad about this was the “unbalanced” part about healers was that White Mage was underpowered because they took a very stubborn stance that White Mage’s identity was pure healing and anything else would clash with that identity, leaving White Mage with nothing to compete with the offensive support and utility found on the other healers. Rather than doing the obvious thing and actually giving White Mage more than just raw heals and damage, they decided gutting the entire role was the only solution.

Honestly I also feel that like other jobs or roles they do consider WhM the "baby's first healer" especially since they simplified it further with the 1.5s casts and whatnot. And judging how the devs consider certain roles to be "baby mode" and balance them accordingly...

Originally Posted by Valence

Honestly I also feel that like other jobs or roles they do consider WhM the "baby's first healer" especially since they simplified it further with the 1.5s casts and whatnot. And judging how the devs consider certain roles to be "baby mode" and balance them accordingly...

It's funny that WHM is considered by them to be the training wheels healer, but Freecure remains a useless noob trap.