Healer identity in 5.0

[Feidam]

In my opinion the ogcd heals should really be oh crap! buttons. You save them for certain mechanics and moments. They shouldn’t be as they are now so healers can play at being another dps. Dpsing and healing is fun I agree. The ratio at the moment is way way off though.

[tesni_g]

In my opinion the ogcd heals should really be oh crap! buttons. You save them for certain mechanics and moments. They shouldn’t be as they are now so healers can play at being another dps. Dpsing and healing is fun I agree. The ratio at the moment is way way off though.

I think oh crap! buttons are a terrible waste of a toolkit. I don't want to sit on my hands waiting for someone else to screw up so I can justify using them. And so many of the ogcds are completely ineffective without proper planning (Earthly Star, cards, Excog, Deployment Tactics, Fey Illumination/Covenant, Benison, Asylum).

We already do save them for certain mechanics. The problem we have is that aren't enough mechanics in between those cooldowns that really push healers to cast direct heals.

[Feidam]

I think oh crap! buttons are a terrible waste of a toolkit. I don't want to sit on my hands waiting for someone else to screw up so I can justify using them. And so many of the ogcds are completely ineffective without proper planning (Earthly Star, cards, Excog, Deployment Tactics, Fey Illumination/Covenant, Benison, Asylum).

We already do save them for certain mechanics. The problem we have is that aren't enough mechanics in between those cooldowns that really push healers to cast direct heals.

Here is the thing though why does a class’s kit need to be 100% used all the time? Gets way too static imo. I like having a bit a strategy that must be employed, as well as moments that make your stomach drop where you have to react in a major way.