Healer identity in 5.0

[Seraphor]

Thanks for your statement. I think we should wait for the liveletter though. So far they have said absolutely ?nothing about combat changes right?

I feel like it was quite a while ago now, and maybe it was very tentative but were were told a couple of things.
Firstly that role skills were being either completely reworked, or removed entirely, and also that the UI was getting updated to display HP shields, which I feel would imply some work to HP shields and perhaps all healers having some access to them, and perhaps their interaction will change.
Plus the loss of TP obviously.

It might be that HP shields are nerfed in some way, as a trade off for healers being able to stack their shields. Maybe they have some kind of diminishing returns or something. Or it might just be that in order to dispel the regen/shield healer dichotomy, all healers have access to both (just give WHM Shell) which means being more careful not to waste shields and so their display on the UI becomes more important.