Dps As Healer

[loreleidiangelo]

Was there any actual math that translated how the lower potency of AST's heals affected output, or was it all just feelycraft? Anyone have any links with some hard data? Been meaning to Google this myself, since I never found the 5% original lower healing potencies a big deal during 3.0, but never bothered to compare statistically to my WHM at the time (dumb mistake).

Im not sure how it could confuse you.
I simply would like more skills and abilities on Healers that buff the party or debuff enemies instead of just "do damage yourself".
Channeled abilities that provide massive Attack Speed buffs, short duration buffs that increase the various way your party can deal or take damage. Skills like that on Healers would be nice.
Move away from "Healers" as a Role and push a Support Role instead. Healing damage while boosting the performance of the party.

As for the AST cards, they're on a 30 second cooldown. Of course theres no real way to "focus on cards". Im not sure how you took me to mean that.

Sorry, in your original comment you didn't make your point very clear, you made it sound like AST's cards currently were a good example of support without DPSing and with their cooldowns and the game's low healing requirements it's just not the case right now. A design shift like that is certainly possible, yes, but it can't be done without seriously nerfing healer DPS and buffing their support options (undesirable for solo play), or raising healing requirements WHILE giving support options that make up the numbers for healers no longer having spare globals to DPS.