A lot of us enjoy playing support characters. THATS OK.
I enjoy putting on Well and running Div and wear boots of the assembler.
A lot times those tracking heals have helped a weaker or new player get through a raid or encounter. LFGs can be… interesting.
Well isn’t over powered and if you don’t play right you can get killed in it.
So why do we run it? We like if. We enjoy it. It fulfills that healer power fantasy.
In short Well is popular because the power fantasy is popular. Not because it’s “mandatory”.
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I personally use Well of Radiance because I have too, not because I want to. Let's be real a second: Bungie loves hunters, and puts up with Warlocks and Titan's You can tell purely by DPS tracking... hunters top of DPS, while Titans and Warlocks lag behind. Here's looking at you Hunter dodge/reload. Hunters get the coolest looking Exotics, with the most power squeezed into them. Proof: Gyrfalcon's Hauberk