Shouldn't Virus be a healer debuff again?

[Ametrine]

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That's fine,and I understand that you don't want to rude but are aware that it's an odd situation but that's not what we're saying. Protect is technically unnecessary, but since it's in our kits and has utility that we can use, and we learn it very early on, it ends up being the thing we learn after "this button hurts baddies" and "this button heals goodies." But, the role system just doesn't work well on healers.

If Virus were given to healers as a -required- skill, Protect would likely be the one to go despite how jarring that idea is. The only option is Esuna which is FAR more dangerous to lose in certain instances. Or, that final personal slot that does vary healer by healer; Largesse, Cleric Stance, or Eye for an Eye.

But look. Healers have 5 slots for role skills, and only ONE is free for us to slap what we want in there to operate at an expected minimum.

Protect, Swiftcast, Lucid Dreaming, Esuna. No healer wants to lose these 4 skills, and I don't think a tank or DPS would be in the right to try to force their healer to. Worth mentioning the vast majority of us take Largesse in that last slot as it's our heal potency buff, and was a vital tool to WHM's original kit. SCH and AST kept their versions of this skill, Rouse and Lightspeed, so technically, a WHM doesn't have any free role slots.

This is actually an issue with the role system healers have been salty about since SB. It's pretty useless to have so many role skills when we all REQUIRE the same ones!

[Tint]

This is actually an issue with the role system healers have been salty about since SB. It's pretty useless to have so many role skills when we all REQUIRE the same ones!

it's not that different for tanks ^^ and my opinion is that Darkside is in a similar spot like Protect (activate it once and then remove it from your hotbar), but at least i don't have to use a role action slot for it >.>

however, i wanted to further point out that even if you WANT to remove protect from your cross-action slots, you simply can't because everyone will expect you to cast it at the start of an instance and you have to explain yourself everytime single time for not using it.