Have Healers and Mages Become too powerful?

As a Healer I don't really care which of the ways they balance it.

My experience is actually quite the opposite. When healers are killable by most equally skilled DPS in 1v1 (without it coming down to randomly who has the better weapon or slightly better crits/armor because they both run out of resources) the game becomes solo-ish and then people dislike how ineffective healers are at keeping OTHER people alive in various content.

Then the game ditches the 'Healer' concept entirely, gives everyone a 'little' healing and tries to balance based on that.

Same for Mages. If a Mage has NO ability to throw out 'big burst damage almost on demand', people will just look for the class that does. You can see this multiple times throughout games. The 'setup mage' is shunned (relative to other classes).

I like the 'slow prep healer' and 'setup mage', so I'll be fine with that, I just don't need another 'eh might as well just let everyone have LifeSteal' game.

As I said in another thread, give us some mana gameplay. Clerics should be the ones to burn through mana the fastest, so once they come across any other player that can speed up that mana burn - they're in trouble. But in a party situation there should be ways to mitigate that mana burn, be it buffs or abilities from other archetypes or maybe even some items.

But I do agree that healers should come to a stalemate with a mid-power dps. A burst dps class should be able to kill a healer even w/o mana gameplay, if they get lucky enough on a crit right after some kind of CC.