DPS will have to pick up the life staff off the ground and put on a big smile as they get one shot by SnS + BB. 
Also, sorry to all PvE players. My fellow PvP brothers and sisters made the chore of filling healer role for dungeons even worse. It might take more than a half hour to find a healer without group finder.
I played the Healer exclusive for many months now. I tried to adjust to light armor in the last days, it is ridiculous. Playing the easter bunny, hopping, dodging and healing is no fun. I will quit as a healer, good luck finding one for any expedition, farming or anything else. O how the other players will fume about that, once they realize a central figure of the game is gone…
We prayed, we asked, we begged to not change the Healer role too much, but no reply. Servers are losing players every day - this does not help bringing them back.
In terms of PvE I will probably end up with a light set. I’m not thrilled to be forced out of a playstyle I enjoy. More than likely I will run it as a 300F//200C Spread.
In terms of PvP I am more than likely going to stop playing healer. This game has no respect or love for healers. It’s disheartening really. I have been working on a few builds to maintain the playstyles I enjoy within the support role since healer is apparently forbidden.
I will be running a 250 / 100 / 150 Spread and remain in both Heavy & Medium. As for the life staff, I’m not unequipping it just gonna repurpose it. The objective is to run Support. IE: Peel, Debuff, Disrupt, Protect without focus. Instead of what I normally run it’ll be SoL, OoP & Beacon. Instead of healing it will be buffing & removing debuffs from allies consistently.
I should still be able to run support. Until of course ags nerfs us again for whatever redundant reason.
I’ll probs just stop playing unfortunately. Told my 5 man I’ll give war a shot, but don’t see group healing being viable and I feel like aoe healing just isn’t what I’m looking for (love group cohesion in war) and don’t think I’ll feel impactful.
There’s yer sign. This is when you know it’s going straight to live from PTR without changes.
I’d love them to prove me wrong, but I have seen it happen too many times now for it to be a coincidence.
regarding the changes, I stopped bothering to make a healer set that I was putting together.
I’ve been lvl20 LS since a month after release and I used to love healing for expeditions and occasionally in war. When they shoehorned us into light armor to be decently effective back in November 2021, I stopped playing healer because I hate that playstyle and the rolling around exploiting rapier that it currently represents.
Recently I got a wild hair and decided to start putting together some 600+ healer gear so that I could do every war role if needed and increase my chances of getting slotted. I was willing to deal with running rapier if it would help my group.
When I saw what they were doing to LE, I stopped entertaining that idea any longer. It just wont be fun and I’d rather not get slotted in a war if I have to be a squishy healer to get that slot, and play the build in a specific way that I find to be annoying and unfun, all while not doing very good healing and having to stand there getting attacked to even have a chance of getting my spells off.
Yeah I figured,
the thing is I agree healers could be nerfed but man they did so much to us that it wont be a good class to play and I genuinely think it will ruin gameplay for so many whether they know it or not.
If its a bad change i truly may quit as well because I worked for so long healing and playing other weapons doesnt seem as fun and i spend a lot of coins and time to roll gear for my light healer set only for me to get wrecked if im a light healer… not worth
Was heavy but thats dead, whole BIS set useless now. Will probably just farm the sagacious set for pve in case I need to heal a dungeon, unfortunately crafting and purchasing bis healer pieces all over again for pvp is too much, as prices are sky high now. AOE healing will prob be the way to go, as it is even stronger now with the new light load buff, 12%+ increase in healing power, this means DE and Splash are also more viable, may be worth testing.
Putting rest of crafting and coin into my dps set next patch.
They could’ve just handed DE instant casting instead of that garbage -5 mana use perk when mana pots are like 0.50 gold each. But yeah, the way they’ve nerfed just makes it an abundantly obvious choice over LE. I guess we’re League of Legends now.
devs have said they dont want healers basically and this will do it, gonna work out great
been talking to my 80 man company were looking at other games if this patch goes through not just our healers all of us to many nerfs accross board even to stamina kinda not worth it at this point
Yeah I guess they’re just preparing for their dying game to have like 500 people online. Won’t need healers and everyone can just do their 3v3s with their timegated currency gain. War balance doesn’t matter apparently. I wonder do they realise it’s these awful, short sighted changes that are driving numbers like this?
Hey if you have another MMO in mind I’m all ears. This one isn’t gonna qualify as a ‘massively multiplayer’ any more at this rate. And it sure won’t be online either soon enough. Lmfao. DM me if you have suggestions. Enthusiastic to go to greener fields where people don’t have a raging hard on for nerfing healers since day 1.
They truly do not understand that many of us, not just healers prioritize one weapon… We spent time and gold on those entire armor sets and they want to nerf healing into the ground so badly that healers will die an incredible amount (which they already die in wars if the team chooses to fight them, watch literally any healer stream) or they will AOE meaning the melee dies a lot
its not a good change for the game
well i had a 200 man company on swtor ran it for 8 years with a quater of the stress if they do ths patch ill message ya let ya know where were going lol
This entire next patch is a shit heap. They should just scrap the balance changes and start from square 1 on that aspect. They listen to whiners with 0 perks and 0 skill who have won 0 wars.
the people they are listening to are the ones who dont even have companies and are not in wars, just individuals here and there who cant kill healers because they have no team and no healer of their own so they are spiteful and it shows in these forums… its not just the healers who will suffter but mutations, imagine having a guy with a life staff (not really a healer anymore) who just dies a lot because they are trying to get a cast off, should every 5 man mutation comp be dps with secondary as a LS?
The changes will likely have to be reverted or they will drive it into the ground ngl
Yeah it just screams solo player mentality. They don’t care their healer will no longer get to save them because that’s not even a consideration. They don’t play this game in any setting where a healer benefits them also. No wars, no stack in OPR, no influence running on an active server. Can’t wait for DPS players to start crying in mutations about dying after they eat their 5th AOE and I don’t have an instant cast LE to save them with any more. I’ve actually started using DE already to get a feel for the slower heals and have already encountered one player like this.
Frankly anytime PvE ability is nerfed in the name of PvP thats a bad thing!
I’m more than happy to concede something to the PvP crowd on this but hurting one aspect for another isnt the way to do it.
Instead of forcing a -/+60% healing delta to force healers into light armor, why not just leaving it alone and add a debuff while flagged? That way PvE dont suffer and you get the paper healers you want.
But because people are being all so short sighted they refuse to see things from another point of view.
IMO that’s going to be the death of this game…the player’s inability to be considerate of others.
Stopped playing a week ago and highly doubt I will be back. I was considering going mage if I do return but definitely not healing anymore. The dev team changed an entire class just because of one mode and alienated the rest of the player base.
3v3 arenas isn’t a good enough reason to stick around. Perhaps I’ll be back after the summer when there is more content and rank/leaderboards. AGS gutted healing so I will love seeing all the whining turn into not finding any healers.
Healers do not need nerfs. Full stop. There is plentiful counters and people have been repeatedly told of these counters in detriment to ourselves so they see how balanced the game already has been. Destroying our viability in PVP just because of ignorant whiners is gonna kill the game for the few healers you have left.