Healers, their DPS and 5.0, what are your thoughts?

[Atlantasia]

I enjoy DPSing in between healing in higher tier content. That's one aspect I really enjoy and frankly I do not want to heal like other games.

What I'd like to see, is keeping the 2-3 DPS skills, but have them chain and you hit the same skill (chains to the next skill) to activate the next in the chain, this increases our skills without filling our bars and may make it a bit more interesting, even if it is the same 2-3 buttons. It still looks different and feels more substantial.

But that's just my suggestion on that one aspect. The challenge between DPSing as hard as I can to help my party clear and keeping them alive is where I feel alive currently, but I do remember T6-T13. The challenge there for WHM was in keeping the party healed, shielded where you could/it was needed, while putting a few DoTs up and keeping your MP afloat with potions, etc. That wasn't bad either, there is a level of fun in that, but after being given ice cream for 4 years, I can't see people transitioning peacefully back into a non ice cream era of healing.

[tinythinker]

I enjoy DPSing in between healing in higher tier content. That's one aspect I really enjoy and frankly I do not want to heal like other games.

What I'd like to see, is keeping the 2-3 DPS skills, but have them chain and you hit the same skill (chains to the next skill) to activate the next in the chain, this increases our skills without filling our bars and may make it a bit more interesting, even if it is the same 2-3 buttons. It still looks different and feels more substantial.

But that's just my suggestion on that one aspect. The challenge between DPSing as hard as I can to help my party clear and keeping them alive is where I feel alive currently, but I do remember T6-T13. The challenge there for WHM was in keeping the party healed, shielded where you could/it was needed, while putting a few DoTs up and keeping your MP afloat with potions, etc. That wasn't bad either, there is a level of fun in that, but after being given ice cream for 4 years, I can't see people transitioning peacefully back into a non ice cream era of healing.

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[gumas]

I enjoy DPSing in between healing in higher tier content. That's one aspect I really enjoy and frankly I do not want to heal like other games.

What I'd like to see, is keeping the 2-3 DPS skills, but have them chain and you hit the same skill (chains to the next skill) to activate the next in the chain, this increases our skills without filling our bars and may make it a bit more interesting, even if it is the same 2-3 buttons. It still looks different and feels more substantial.

But that's just my suggestion on that one aspect. The challenge between DPSing as hard as I can to help my party clear and keeping them alive is where I feel alive currently, but I do remember T6-T13. The challenge there for WHM was in keeping the party healed, shielded where you could/it was needed, while putting a few DoTs up and keeping your MP afloat with potions, etc. That wasn't bad either, there is a level of fun in that, but after being given ice cream for 4 years, I can't see people transitioning peacefully back into a non ice cream era of healing.

since you are WHM, i will tell you this. to be honest, what we going to do in shadowbringer is going to be no different from our current, since we dont change much.

get in -> holy holy holy assize holy -> dot dot

and later in shadowbringer we have one extra large aoe to weave in when we our blood lily is on

as whm we are bound and cursed with this holy skill =P

keeping the 2-3 DPS skills, but have them chain and you hit the same skill (chains to the next skill) to activate the next in the chain

so you mean the usual 123 combo but with magic instead?

[Atlantasia]

since you are WHM, i will tell you this. to be honest, what we going to do in shadowbringer is going to be no different from our current, since we dont change much.

get in -> holy holy holy assize holy -> dot dot

and later in shadowbringer we have one extra large aoe to weave in when we our blood lily is on

as whm we are bound and cursed with this holy skill =P



so you mean the usual 123 combo but with magic instead?

Have you ever played AION? There skills chain, and when I say chain, the same way Tank Aggro Combo or DRG's combo skills chain, BUT instead of needing to press different buttons, the skills chain so that the next skill in the chain becomes the icon of the first skill to trigger it, so while you press the same button, they're entirely different skills with entirely different animations/cast times/damage. That would make it easy enough to do, but also add some variety to the 2-3 spells we currently get.

I've been playing WHM since the launch of ARR. I know we're headed into more of the same... still hoping we're not, but it's like SB all over again. *sigh*