Healers in 5.0

[Schan]

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I'm disagreeing in the basis of: content didn't need your big heals and they're now giving everyone more heals. What for? And you're happy they get more powerful heals? Again, what for?

I'm basically now stuck to hoping that content design heads a different direction while dreading the fact they won't even touch old content to reflect this possible need for more healing while leaving me spamming one button if i want to do anything other than healing. (i am looking forward to see how mp management is going to work though, but only because it's new. Let's hope i won't hate it once i get my hands on it.)

regarding SCH complaining I dunno. I don't feel it's just the dps loss. SCH as AST to me... they seem like the're complaining about the loss of decision making which is part of what makes healers fun. SCH had options to pick between damage or more heals. Now it stricly heals. AST had the different card effects and you had to decide on the fly especially if you got a bad hand. Now every card does the same thing and you fish for different seals for an aoe damage buff so basically it feels like it's balance aoe fishing again with a new fresh coat of paint.

Don't get me wrong. there are things I have liked. I like how they've picked up on the fact that WHM was frustrating to play if you had to actually use your gcds to heal and you had to sit there to cast while every other healer has aoes heals that are instant. WHM basically had a skill to speed up casting (which considering how fast some fights where it wasn't enough) or blow swiftcast which then you had to pray no one died (or use your smn/rdm as rez bots instead)
Also you keep bringing WHM up. You do realize WHM is arguably the one who is better off right? And neither of us can't really comment on WHM being buffed because combat changes will affect potencies so 500 potency right now might be different from 500 potency in Shadowbringers. Did it get some QOL changes? Definitely but I wouldn't call them "buffs". Not yet at least.