Disrespectful and Dismissive.

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Originally Posted by LariaKirin

Just because they didn't say anything about healers in the LL, does not mean nothing is happening in 5.08 and 5.1. I kinda understand why they avoided these questions. Healers really are the saltiest bunch.

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I believe the majority of us understand that. They never said we weren't getting changes ever, and I don't believe anyone here is saying that either - them saying that they're keeping AST in the position they're in after the .05 patch isn't going to resonate well with a lot of people, even when the changes were welcomed but are still seen as not enough, and I hope you can understand the initial reaction may be quite heated to that fact.

However, I don't believe you can say "Healers really are the saltiest bunch." when the devs openly ignore the majority of questions that were posted by healers and we get 'this is the way it's staying for now' in regards to AST while the rest of the questions were brushed under the rug as usual.

If they had something great planned for .08 and .1, they surely would've said something or at least brought it up by now, right?

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Originally Posted by Mesarthim

Sandwiches are evidently more important than healers are at this point.

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Heh I mean they do taste better then healer so why talk about the trash when you can talk about something delicious -.-

Well their silence can be a sign of embaressement, the changes are horrible, the feedback from the west and in Japan confirm it. They are ashamed to even acknowledge they did wrong. Or it could be apathy. Healers are not the priority they don't care, not worth the effort to comment on let alone fix. If they make the class brain dead and easy to pick up there won't ever be a shortage.

"the data shows you should be happy with ast, we are not going to do anything about it"

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Originally Posted by LariaKirin

Just because they didn't say anything about healers in the LL, does not mean nothing is happening in 5.08 and 5.1. I kinda understand why they avoided these questions. Healers really are the saltiest bunch.

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People thought the same about whm changes in stormblood were they only reduced Aggro gain and that whas it until almost the end of the expansion. Yes some QoL changes but nothing big

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Originally Posted by Mesarthim

Sandwiches are evidently more important than healers are at this point.

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Well, when you think about it, at least for AST *flashbacks*

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Originally Posted by Adeacia

People complain about AST but I just played it for the first time since ShB launched and I didn't see the big deal over the complaints. Seemed like AST to me.

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whole drama is about new card system, but every old astro fished for balance and they have balance in every card ... I just don't know what is this all QQ about

got balance ... bad , don't have balance bad ...

every old card expect spear was useless any way

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Originally Posted by Dynia

whole drama is about new card system, but every old astro fished for balance and they have balance in every card ... I just don't know what is this all QQ about

got balance ... bad , don't have balance bad ...

every old card expect spear was useless any way

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It seems you're willfully ignoring that many people are citing that we, in fact, made use of all cards in their varying situations.

Try not to speak for everyone in that we were only "Fishing for balance" because it's definitely not true. Many of us are literally saying this.

I'm saying it now.

The lore revolved around the fate of the cards, many of us played the Job as such and made judgements at our own discretion.

As an Astrologian, our job is to interpret the will of the stars with each card that was drawn and act accordingly, not ignore them to "fish for balance".

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Originally Posted by Tahldon

It seems you're willfully ignoring that many people are citing that we, in fact, made use of all cards in their varying situations.

Try not to speak for everyone in that we were only "Fishing for balance" because it's definitely not true. Many of us are literally saying this.

I'm saying it now.

The lore revolved around the fate of the cards, many of us played the Job as such and made judgements at our own discretion.

As an Astrologian, our job is to interpret the will of the stars with each card that was drawn and act accordingly, not ignore them to "fish for balance".

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99% astro players fished for aoe balance or aoe spear, you may not be in that 99%, I don't care but you have to deal with it
I never saw any my coohealer astro ever used aoe bole, aoe spire or aoe ewer ...
never felt needed to use that cards myself too ...

No one ever wins: Lol

Dev Team- You are healers and support. That’s it and that’s all.
Community- Well I’m bored when my team is fully healed so I’m gonna dps.
Dev Team- Okay we didn’t count on that so now we have more to worry about to balance.
Community- Ugh our dps rotations are so weak and a snore fest... dev team make it better.
Dev Team- Hmm ok so we will increase your dps potency and take away some of your support (Fey wind, fey caress, nerf Astro cards and time magic) also give you stronger ogcds so you can dps allot more.
Community- But I’m a healer/support right?
Dev team- Look you can’t have it all. You can’t be super healers with a high powered dps rotation and insane support. You will be to op.
Community- Hmm ok well just give us all of that and significantly increase the incoming damage so we won’t be able to dps much and still help our team out with our support. That’s a good trade off right?
Dev Team- So your answer is to just make you heal more? Nah you been all over the forums about dps so now you got it. We removed/ nerfed your support. Be happy with that for the next 2 years.
Community- ........... but but
Dev Team- If we increase the damage scale significantly then we will have more upset players because they won’t be able to clear the content. We have to consider all the players. That’s why we simplified most jobs.
Community- So now I have to suffer because other players can’t git gud?
Dev Team- You wanted to be healer/dps now you got it. That’s how it’s gonna be for now and we’re not changing it.
Community- But you said we are healers/support. You just can’t go back on that.
Dev Team- We can and we did. Thank your community. See ya.

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Originally Posted by Dynia

99% astro players fished for aoe balance or aoe spear, you may not be in that 99%, I don't care but you have to deal with it
I never saw any my coohealer astro ever used aoe bole, aoe spire or aoe ewer ...
never felt needed to use that cards myself too ...

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Did you personally monitor every single AST player and came to the conclusion that none of them ever royal roaded for potency or duration?
Who are you to say that 99% of the AST playerbase used only one or two cards?

Besides, wouldn't it have been simpler to just nerf Balance instead of making every single card a three times weaker balance?

It's because of people like you our role is dumbed down and we're told to be happy with it.

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Originally Posted by Dynia

99% astro players fished for aoe balance or aoe spear, you may not be in that 99%, I don't care but you have to deal with it
I never saw any my coohealer astro ever used aoe bole, aoe spire or aoe ewer ...
never felt needed to use that cards myself too ...

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You: *complains when WHM isn't buffed, and fails to understand why people dont really behind them to buff WHM*

Also you : *is glad that classes didnt get nerfed, but rather was stripped of what made them fun and unique*

Hmmm :thonking:

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Originally Posted by Dynia

99% astro players fished for aoe balance or aoe spear, you may not be in that 99%, I don't care but you have to deal with it
I never saw any my coohealer astro ever used aoe bole, aoe spire or aoe ewer ...
never felt needed to use that cards myself too ...

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And I've never seen someone cut meat with a spoon before, that doesn't mean that the only cutlery anyone is allowed to use should be chopsticks.

You never saw AoE Ewers or Spires because using an Expanded Royal Road on those effects was not worthwhile - A good portion of the classes had zero use for TP and vice versa for MP. Even for those that did use those resources, they were usually balanced around being able to control that resource in a vacuum, otherwise having an AST to control it for them would be mandatory. That's just the modifier and the effect not synergising well, which can be solved by making the effect something more useful.

You had to put a modicum of thought into maximising your chances of getting a good card setup, while also minimising wasted cards. That was the entire point of the class having the card mechanic - To offer a unique and interesting gameplay mechanic.

You would draw, weigh up what you had at the time versus the chances of getting something better, and then decide what to do. If the fight's nearly over, you might slap a basic Balance on someone rather than putting it in the Spread and hoping for a Royal Road modifier. If you're with a group taking more damage than you're comfortable with, you might keep a Ewer in your pocket rather than burning it, and so on.

Just because a certain combo was never good doesn't mean the system as a whole was worthless and needed ripping out. It meant the combo needed to be looked at and having why it wasn't useful identified and addressed.

Well so far Mr. Happy is ok with the healer changes - astro- and if the team is listening to anyone it's the twitchers and youtubers. So -oof-

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Originally Posted by Billythepancake

You: *complains when WHM isn't buffed, and fails to understand why people dont really behind them to buff WHM*

Also you : *is glad that classes didnt get nerfed, but rather was stripped of what made them fun and unique*

Hmmm :thonking:

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for me new card system is buff, balance in every card without any RNG is blessing not curse ...

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Originally Posted by Tweets

. You never saw AoE Ewers or Spires because using an Expanded Royal Road on those effects was not worthwhile - A good portion of the classes had zero use for TP and vice versa for MP. Even for those that did use those resources, they were usually balanced around being able to control that resource in a vacuum, otherwise having an AST to control it for them would be mandatory. That's just the modifier and the effect not synergising well, which can be solved by making the effect something more useful.

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that why there was only 3 good cards with dps ...
now you have dps in every card ...
what the diffrence ?

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Originally Posted by Insertcoins

Well so far Mr. Happy is ok with the healer changes - astro- and if the team is listening to anyone it's the twitchers and youtubers. So -oof-

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He was perfectly fine with MNK RoF slowdown, so yeah. On his videos he used to praise AST like many others but suddenly the old card system was way too problematic.

ofc raiders and specially DPS would be happy to have a constant increase on their numbers and wouldn't care about the healers play-style, (I know this isn't the topic) are there any influencers that main healer? not a single of the YT FFXIV channels on my sub feed talk anything healing related and the current situation. You would assume with healers where there are only 3 choices and yet AST is being used less than 10% for raiding would make some kind of fuss about it.

To start with they should stop listening to high level raiders that represent just a tiny fraction of the total game population... not to mention that high level content in this game gets cleared so fast (within some hours this time) that all this focus to achieve "balance" over playstyle/joy, makes absolutely no sense at all.

Community is asking for deeper changes specially to card system, a big part of them actually ask for a total rollback to 4.0 card system. Not sure where are they putting their ears but its clear not around these forums.

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Originally Posted by Dynia

for me new card system is buff, balance in every card without any RNG is blessing not curse ...



that why there was only 3 good cards with dps ...
now you have dps in every card ...
what the diffrence ?

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To YOU it's a blessing, but I remember you stating you didnt like the class, so why would you want the core mechanic, that people did enjoy and is one of the biggest reasons they fell in love with the class, to be removed? Because its different from YOUR playstyle? So people who prefer different playstyles from YOURS cant have a class that appeals to them?

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Originally Posted by Billythepancake

To YOU it's a blessing, but I remember you stating you didnt like the class, so why would you want the core mechanic, that people did enjoy and is one of the biggest reasons they fell in love with the class, to be removed? Because its different from YOUR playstyle? So people who prefer different playstyles from YOURS cant have a class that appeals to them?

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that I don't like that class that dosen't mean anything, even I don't like class that dosen't mean I don't know how to use it and that dosen't mean I didn't learn how to use it
in term of balance I don't look on class is this fun or unfun to play or it easy 1 button spam or 10 button rotation, you are able to learn any class ... , in term on balance im looking for numbers only and what skilled person can do with that numbers

removing RNG is giving this buffer better number for damage giving to others ...

EDIT: I rly don't care about WHM dps rotation for example,if is it 1 button spam or I have use 10 buttons as long I have high personal dps since we have 0 utility ...
I care more about scores and numbers than how I do that numbers ...

1 button spam ? fine ... now I have 10 buttons for dps ? sure why not as long in the end is good numbers ...

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Originally Posted by Dynia

that I don't like that class that dosen't mean anything, even I don't like class that dosen't mean I don't know how to use it and that dosen't mean I didn't learn how to use it
in term of balance I don't look on class is this fun or unfun to play or it easy 1 button spam or 10 button rotation, you are able to learn any class ... , in term on balance im looking for numbers only and what skilled person can do with that numbers

removing RNG is giving this buffer better number for damage giving to others ...

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There is more to a game than just numbers and parses. wanna talk numbers? Let's look at MCH. In terms of dps and viability, it was great in SB, it could compete just fine against BRD, but despite that nobody played it. Why? Because it felt like trash to play, it was a nightmare trying to play that class well, despite how good of numbers it could produce. Same thing with AST, even if for optimization it is better in terms of sheer numbers, it feels like garbage to play it, and that's 1000x worse than having bad numbers. That's why you dont see very many ASTs now, not because it isnt viable to take one, but because it's too much of a headache to get the opener, and then after opener its boring as hell.

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Originally Posted by Billythepancake

There is more to a game than just numbers and parses. wanna talk numbers? Let's look at MCH. In terms of dps and viability, it was great in SB, it could compete just fine against BRD, but despite that nobody played it. Why? Because it felt like trash to play, it was a nightmare trying to play that class well, despite how good of numbers it could produce. Same thing with AST, even if for optimization it is better in terms of sheer numbers, it feels like garbage to play it, and that's 1000x worse than having bad numbers. That's why you dont see very many ASTs now, not because it isnt viable to take one, but because it's too much of a headache to get the opener, and then after opener its boring as hell.

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you talking with person who left his fav class in SB (WHM) for me it was trashy for SCH (who was op for me)
I hate to play weak classes even I have skill to play them :/

maybe that why ppls misunderstooing me the whole time ...

EDIT: that why I love ff 14 story, I play as OP Warrior of light lol ...

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Originally Posted by Dynia

that why there was only 3 good cards with dps ...
now you have dps in every card ...
what the diffrence ?

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Bole meant less damage to the tank, it was a dps uptime buff for you and your co-healer.
Ewer meant more MP, it was a buff to anyone struggling with MP management and could save your team if multiple raises were needed.
Spire was the only useless card, because TP management was rarely an issue.

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Originally Posted by Lodi

Bole meant less damage to the tank, it was a dps uptime buff for you and your co-healer.
Ewer meant more MP, it was a buff to anyone struggling with MP management and could save your team if multiple raises were needed.
Spire was the only useless card, because TP management was rarely an issue.

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External MP batteries were removed from the game, not just Astro's. See the lack thereof on ranged DPS. It's just mitigation or heal buffs.

on the cards even if most cards were bad and i fished for aoe balance id say having bad results is core to an rng card class so good results feel good rn im not excited for any card outcome and just annoyed when i dont get 3 seals

If SE wanted cards to be more consistent, there are better ways they could have handled it. For starters, many have suggested changing Balance from a direct damage increase into a Direct Hit rate buff to lessen its superiority over other cards. I've also suggested that SE could have adjusted cards so that three of them are damage boosting buffs while the other three offer support utility, then make Lord and Lady guaranteed based on the type of card drawn. All damage boosting cards can be turned into Lady of Crowns while support utility cards can be turned into Lord of Crowns. Not only would that allow for every card to contribute damage through direct or indirect means, but it would also give players the freedom to utilize a support-oriented focus with defense boosting and healing cards if they so choose.

Instead, every card now does the exact same thing with no regard for lore or variety.

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

Instead, every card now does the exact same thing with no regard for lore or variety.

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thats not even just for cards since eos and selene are the same now too

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Originally Posted by technole

External MP batteries were removed from the game, not just Astro's. See the lack thereof on ranged DPS. It's just mitigation or heal buffs.

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That's another problem, classes have become more confined in their role.
The small bit of DPS classes had (Mana Shift, Refresh, Apocastasis, Palisade, Erase...) is gone; now you either play RDM or completely ignore your team and focus on dps at all time.

Was it a crime to look after our party with the little support we had?

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Originally Posted by Lodi

The small bit of DPS classes had (Mana Shift, Refresh, Apocastasis, Palisade, Erase...) is gone; now you either play RDM or completely ignore your team and focus on dps at all time.

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And it's only partial with RDM because you don't get vercure until 54. Below that it's all "OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS HEALER DOING I DON'T EVEN HAVE VERCURE I HATE DPSING AAAAGH".

Not that this has been happening to me this week or anything...

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Originally Posted by technole

External MP batteries were removed from the game, not just Astro's. See the lack thereof on ranged DPS. It's just mitigation or heal buffs.

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What, are AST DPS now? Is that the hot new idea that even Squeen forgot about?

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Originally Posted by KanameYuuki

He was perfectly fine with MNK RoF slowdown, so yeah. On his videos he used to praise AST like many others but suddenly the old card system was way too problematic.

ofc raiders and specially DPS would be happy to have a constant increase on their numbers and wouldn't care about the healers play-style, (I know this isn't the topic) are there any influencers that main healer? not a single of the YT FFXIV channels on my sub feed talk anything healing related and the current situation. You would assume with healers where there are only 3 choices and yet AST is being used less than 10% for raiding would make some kind of fuss about it.

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That's just it, thats who they are listening too. They are the biggest voices in the playerbase with thousands of people watching them so ofcourse that's who the devs are listening too. Does it make it right? That's debateable seeing as how even before the shadow's launched a few of them, some who are healer mains. - Tate I believe and also Momo - both didn't care TOO much about the changes. They were questionable but they were alot more positive then the forums. I'm not saying the devs are right, but I'm just explaining who they are listening too... hint.. it isn't the forums.

And on the cards, I don't see how they can go back to 4.0 seeing as the things they want to stop was fishing for balance... rather if you did or not it was a problem. And the other thing is it STILL wouldn't be 4.0 ast cause once again, TP isn't a thing - thank god- and tanks have bette defenses so you literally can't get 4.0 AST back because of those two changes. All you can hope for is better changes to 5.0 AST cause that's what you have and they already said they aren't going to roll back.

No TP is an easy thing to change: change Spire to something else. But tanks having access to tank stance now is not a suitable defense for not returning old Bole. Considering the non-existent scaling of healing from level 70 to 80, an Enhanced or Extended Bole would still be more than welcome on a tank during a large trash pull. Boles probably weren't used much in raids due to simply not needing the mitigation past prog. However, my most popular uses of Boles were in dungeons - especially since Expanded cards were weaker and it was better to single target the offensive cards in a 4-person party scenario.

Despite the repeated arguments of some cards being useless, the only one I ever actively used for RR or MA fodder was Spire. The others all saw uses in a myriad of different scenarios. Not just high-end raids. And the solution to Spire is simple: change it into something that would be more useful. They have done this before: Spear used to reduce the cooldown duration of skills used during its duration. A nifty idea, but not that great when one considered using it in practice. So it was mostly RR fodder or discarded. They changed it to a Crit card, and it became infinitely better. The same could have been done with Spire. Balance could have also been adjusted to bring its contribution down a bit; or, they could have given WHM a non-RNG equivalent utility such as Bravery to compete with it.

I disagree the best change was the one they came up with. The cards feel hollow now with no real meaning outside of "melee card", "ranged card", and "X Seal". It's a very lackluster mechanic in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by KanameYuuki

He was perfectly fine with MNK RoF slowdown, so yeah. On his videos he used to praise AST like many others but suddenly the old card system was way too problematic.

ofc raiders and specially DPS would be happy to have a constant increase on their numbers and wouldn't care about the healers play-style, (I know this isn't the topic) are there any influencers that main healer? not a single of the YT FFXIV channels on my sub feed talk anything healing related and the current situation. You would assume with healers where there are only 3 choices and yet AST is being used less than 10% for raiding would make some kind of fuss about it.

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I find it funny that once he learned about new Astro he immediately started talking about how Astro needed changes. Then once the rework was shown he talked about how great it was.

Then I remember watching his podcast type video where him, Sly, and Tot were all talking about the changes. During this Astro came up and Happy was oozing all over it. Saying how amazing it was and no buffs were needed, and the class had so much depth.

Sly said that this rework wasn't as good as Happy was saying. That it's unfair for Astro's cards to be shafted like they were, and that issues were going to come from this. That astro mains wouldnt be happy with this....and Happy blew it off saying no its good. That Sly just didnt understand, and that the devs are great.

I dont go by his word anymore. Sometimes sucking up hurts players more than actual feeback.

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Originally Posted by Almostward

I find it funny that once he learned about new Astro he immediately started talking about how Astro needed changes. Then once the rework was shown he talked about how great it was.

Then I remember watching his podcast type video where him, Sly, and Tot were all talking about the changes. During this Astro came up and Happy was oozing all over it. Saying how amazing it was and no buffs were needed, and the class had so much depth.

Sly said that this rework wasn't as good as Happy was saying. That it's unfair for Astro's cards to be shafted like they were, and that issues were going to come from this. That astro mains wouldnt be happy with this....and Happy blew it off saying no its good. That Sly just didnt understand, and that the devs are great.

I dont go by his word anymore. Sometimes sucking up hurts players more than actual feeback.

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what a shock a dps main is happy he always gets a damage buff

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Originally Posted by Almostward

I find it funny that once he learned about new Astro he immediately started talking about how Astro needed changes. Then once the rework was shown he talked about how great it was.

Then I remember watching his podcast type video where him, Sly, and Tot were all talking about the changes. During this Astro came up and Happy was oozing all over it. Saying how amazing it was and no buffs were needed, and the class had so much depth.

Sly said that this rework wasn't as good as Happy was saying. That it's unfair for Astro's cards to be shafted like they were, and that issues were going to come from this. That astro mains wouldnt be happy with this....and Happy blew it off saying no its good. That Sly just didnt understand, and that the devs are great.

I dont go by his word anymore. Sometimes sucking up hurts players more than actual feeback.

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Yeah I remember that too. I am not saying he's right, the only thing I point out by mentioning that is that is who the devs are listening too. And sadly for astro mains he's now saying it's good. I mean as a DPS main I agree to a point but I do think they kindof messed up insanely. I like Hyo's idea, sadly for a rework like that to happen I don't see them doing it until 6.0.. which is WAY too late honestly. Maybe astros will get lucky and SE will dail it back but it seems like they are doubling down hard atm. Which sucks for ast mains. Not going to lie tho, it is nice getting the cards now... but it sucks ast mains are unhappy about it. The only thing I actually agree with is I don't think buffs like that should be tied to RNG 100% and glad for that change.. but I'm speaking from a DPS point of view.

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Originally Posted by tikiwiki

thats not even just for cards since eos and selene are the same now too

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The essential outright removal of Selene (in terms of function) does bother me. I don't recall hearing a sufficient explanation behind that decision. Just... why? Why do that? Why take away options?

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

I don't recall hearing a sufficient explanation behind that decision.

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We haven't received any explanation about any of the healer decisions, other than "we aren't thinking of adding a healer this expansion, because we want to balance healers."
Followed by, later, "Oh, healers wanted a new healer? We didn't know. We'll think about that in the future."
Then, "We don't want to hear about healer complaints! Wait until savage releases, and then we'll consider taking feedback."

And since then not a thing.

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Originally Posted by MintnHoney

We haven't received any explanation about any of the healer decisions, other than "we aren't thinking of adding a healer this expansion, because we want to balance healers."
Followed by, later, "Oh, healers wanted a new healer? We didn't know. We'll think about that in the future."
Then, "We don't want to hear about healer complaints! Wait until savage releases, and then we'll consider taking feedback."

And since then not a thing.

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And dont forget: We do not plan on adding any changes to any healers, but we appreciate your feedback

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Originally Posted by Almostward

And dont forget: We do not plan on adding any changes to any healers, but we appreciate your feedback

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meanwhile for dps please continue giving feedback were adjusting things as needed

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Originally Posted by Blueyes

The essential outright removal of Selene (in terms of function) does bother me. I don't recall hearing a sufficient explanation behind that decision. Just... why? Why do that? Why take away options?

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This is what made the most impact on me. I'm trying to imagine what drove them to remove so much with a single word or reason. Did they deem arcanist skills and Selene as not usefull 100% of the time so they had to go. It most probably weren't useful in Savage, yet I saw every button used in all the rest of the content which I can help feel is being left behind even by the developers.

That content is already trivialized, even new dungeons moment they come out, but older versions of scholar was just cathartic to run in those places. The dungeons wasn't fun in itself, the job made it fun. I have no idea the implications, but if the developers are afraid things won't be ready for Savage then I'd like them see make a different combat system for Extreme/Savage/Ultimate. Like the already did with PvP, Deep dungeons and Eureka and it's crazy logos actions. Then rest of the content we could remove skills cut off in synced duties and the devs could make every job a demi-god with a completely unbalanced skillset that is very fun to play with. Extreme/Savage/Ultimate is already a gross exaggeration of what actually happen so the skills could varibly change too.

Basicly a finely tuned system made for the contained boss fight with strict script and checks, and a unbalanced system outside where the developers give anything we could ask for on healer jobs.

Selene's silence was by all means useless, but they could've just work around balancing both fairies instead of outright deleting her.

Eos - basic heal, aoe hot, increased healing buff

Selene - basic heal, aoe esuna, increased magic defense buff

There. Eos is the generic mini WHM and Selene the oh crap mitigator.

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Originally Posted by Allegor

Selene's silence was by all means useless, but they could've just work around balancing both fairies instead of outright deleting her.

Eos - basic heal, aoe hot, increased healing buff

Selene - basic heal, aoe esuna, increased magic defense buff

There. Eos is the generic mini WHM and Selene the oh crap mitigator.

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I wouldve gone more for a

Eos - stays as she was in SB, so regen, magic defense buff, healing buff

Selene - the aoe silence + now it does a little bit of damage (not much, give it a small potency so it can be balanced) the aoe esuna also has a small heal attached to it, basically make it a team wide embrace, and let her keep Fey wind.

This way, eos isn your prog/defensive fairy, the one for safer strats, and selene is your farm/offensive fairy, but still has at least a heal of her own, albeit one that cant compare to WD, so she isnt completely useless in the healing department.

I wouldve much preferred this because it allows both fairies to be useful no matter the content, and you can choose one depending on your preferred playstyle, or the situation at hand. Do you want to be safer? Maybe your first time in a raid? Go with EOS. Have this fight on farm and want a little more deeps because the healing can be handled fine? Go with Selene.