Quote Originally Posted by Anselmet View Post
Honestly you only listed my reasons as to WHY we need a new healer class. A fourth healer is a chance to break up the dichotomy with the healers. Of course, this would mean that DNC would have to come in with something new other than shields and regens. If not, then it will be a like you said, "just adding a class for the sake of it".

But that isn't necessarily bad if it does either shield and regens with a new flavor and not how ast was handled. But we shall see.
Yes but that's my point actually: breaking the dichotomy regen vs. shield is beyond jobs, it's the whoel healing system that needs to change (and the fights need to reflect that too). Once this is done, you can have various ways of healing and thus various healing jobs. For now, it will be Regen or Shield or "Lulz I canz do both".

They could also give all healers minimal shields and regens, then work on individual tweaks for job identity though.