5.0 healer catastrophizing is illogical - Change My Mind

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Very good post and I'd like to directly complement the OP rather than joining the current discussion if you all don't mind.

For WHM's rDPS, people forget pDPS is part of rDPS, and if they're high enough they can overcome buffs. Misery is a great addition to WHM because it basically refunds 2 or you 3 GCD heals you've spent. And going by Media Tour number... a lot more GCD healing will happen from now on.

For AST: Everyone complaining complexity is gone while not realizing the complexity was shifted, not gone. Trying to lend a 3 Seal Divination in 10s at encounter openners will be challenging.

My only legitimate complaints to all the changes being... Nocturnal Sect still looking bad, maybe Disurnal+WHM isn't that bad anymore now that Neutral exists but still... They had a chance of empowering Noct throught the Celestial skills but they seem very week on their side (the death of manual embrace being the biggest buff to Noct really). SCH has simply too much horsepower in OGCDs and thats just not fixing the issue we've had since Heavensward, but if numbers are anywhere close to the test builds we've seen footage from, it will require a lot of tought and cooldown cycling (more similar to WoW healing cooldown management in that regard for SCH) which may be a good thing. Sacred soil regen is probably a bit too strong though. This last one isn't a complaint really? But I'd have liked to see a charge system in any of WHM actions, that's more of a personal wish more than anything.

The only complaint I see tossed around that is probably valid is how damage rotations got too simple but uh... I don't know, play a DPS frrom now on if that's the case. If you end up having to press a lot more healing abilities you'll be alternating from Damage to Heals more often to a simpler 1 spam accomodates it better, so now all we need is to see how it will play out in the field work. And for that, we have to wait.