Quote Originally Posted by desufin View Post
Proshell being given to all healers is a balance symptom of "all tools need to be present" which is okay, BUT it's not well thought out when SCH never needed Proshell and it leads to the imbalance that SCH now has every major damage mitigation tool in their arsenal while WHM got nothing new in that regard.
I think in this case it's best we just agree to disagree. This one sentence of yours is why I don't want to keep up this argument, you keep referring back to the way things are now, completely disregarding that we're getting a third healer. If proshell was not distributed, WHM would practically have a guaranteed spot in every team.

And Arcanist having the Super-Virus trait is not irrelevant. For the past few months, have you not heard how many issues are being created from SCH/SMN being tied via ACN? My point is that if they did seperate the jobs completely, Super-Virus would be a utility tool that is more suited towards the SMN, as it is a direct debuff on the target. Hence my reasoning that it should be distributed amongst casters.
As for forcing group compositions, we see that happening already in the form of Bards. Like it or not, there will always be a job that fulfills a certain role in the group. Different jobs bring different utilities, and the most desired utilities will be seeked out. And your point about DF is completely irrelevant. When things (like FCoB) make it to the DF, parties don't generally need to rely on things like Virus to get the clear. Echo more than makes up for that.