This is too dramatic and the answer won’t be this simple. I hate this terrible bunker meta as much as the next person, but what you’re proposing would just trash half the builds in the game.
The actual solution is going to be a much more complex fine-tuning, and it will need to be on a class-by-class basis (build-by-build, even).
I could see Diamond Skin becoming something like, “All condition duration is reduced by 75% when above 85% life”, several of the druid heals getting longer cooldowns and less capacity for condi cleanse, mesmers losing a little bit of their evade time on blurred frenzy, etc.
But we can’t just throw a huge blanket nerf on an entire playstyle because 3 or 4 builds are OP, however absurdly OP they might be.
Blurred Frenzy has been fine for the past 3 years or so, don’t you dare touch it!
The problem is the synergy with Durability rune and protection on chaos armor (which we can get as long as we want), making us able to stack perma protection added with an incredible amount of Alacrity that has no counter.
If blurred frenzy was the problem, any other build running Sword/Shield would be too strong.
IMO Tank (bunker) roles should not be healing at all, people want to tank they tank but get no access to any heals.
What a crappy kitten logic…
Bunker and healing goes hand in hand, I’d see the logic if you’d speak of, say, power build having the same healing as bunker, but the game was designed in such a way that any class could have access to self-heal and it’s perfect like that… has been for the past years and I don,t see any changes that made self-healing suddenly the reason why bunker runs around the map…
They should be able to heal, and it’s perfectly normal to not be able to kill them in 1v1, that’s their sole redeeming qualities (that and an added team support), but they are still easily killable against 3-4-5 people who knows their kitten. The other side of the bunker is that they deal an amount of damage that makes them as dangerous as critters in PvE…
Usually easy build, with low skill ceiling and relatively alright reward (not dying and keeping your point) That’s decent and balanced alright.
On another hand, you have glass cannon who dies when you so much sneeze at them, but they deliver damage like hiroshima bomb.
Intensive, difficult playstyle for high reward.
What is not alright is having truck-like classes running around the map with a more than decent survivability for a more than decent amount of DPS, making them either semi-glass cannon (scrapper or revenant) or effective and dangerous bruisers (elementalist) that requires the same amount of gameplay as a bunker but gives the same amount of reward as a glass cannon…
And this has come to life not because of classes’ abilities to heal, but from a combination of passive, traits, runes (durability mainly) and amulets (celestial) that creates a jack-of-all trade master-of-all type of builds who are effective in all area of the game, which creates a boring meta where fights drags on because it’s based on a bruising type where you will slowly erode people’s defenses…
You don’t fix problem, you make a lazy slash in something that has never been a problem…
