Quote Originally Posted by WaterShield View Post
The extent of what I am trying to convey is thus. I do not like the changes. They strip AST of its identity. All healers now feel like skins of the same thing with little to differentiate them. The new skill sets leave little to do in downtime between heals.

Consequently, I do not find any healer to be engaging after this change and will not touch them henceforth.
By all means stick to your guns but I think a more reasonable approach would be to try healers before dismissing them.

Saying you can form a complete opinion about how playing healers will feel based on reading their tooltips is like reading a text guide for a fight and saying you fully understand it, seems kind of prematurely dismissive to me.

If you're one of those people who thinks that by not playing healers you'll be somehow showing SE your displeasure with the changes (to be clear I'm not saying you are one of these people, just a hypothetical) I think you're going about it the wrong way. Plenty of people are going to still be playing healers in ShB, the people outraged on the forums and Reddit are barely a drop in the bucket for overall healers.