The Healer Double Standard

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AST didn't lose any dots. WHM lost one dot. SCH lost too much.

AST is mad because cards are being dumbed down to the point where it feels like their identity is being taken away. (If you actually paid attention in the AST quest line, it talks about what the cards reference and why they do what they do, someone made a great post about it somewhere in the dumpster fire that is healer forums over the past week. I will not be going to find it.)

WHM is mad because we got 1 dot taken away so we now have the boring AST rotation but without anything else for us to do. And we still don't have any raid utility at all. And all of our over the top healing (of which we got more) isn't needed and still won't be needed.

SCH is mad because they lost too much (way more than one dot), and while they got a new shiny fairy, it does not fix losing too much.


To whoever it was trying to talk about how we're gaining 10% potency...
And of course healers have bigger potency spells so it's probable that at least AST and WHM will do more dmg than we currently do, but the HP for all the mobs will also go up quite a bit if Shadowbringers is like previous expansions. My undergeared WHM couldn't really kill anything in HW launch (even though I could kill 50s in ARR areas ok). My well geared WHM took much too long to kill things in Fringes and Peaks (even though I had no problems with 60s in the HW areas). I expect this to be much the same in Shadowbringers, and I for one would have loved to be able to keep any extra damage spells to be able to help kill things faster. (And that's why I'll be going DPS this expansion.)

But most astro's just fish for balance anyway though.

Every other card is kinda useless and not really needed. Astro was basically redraw and royal road until you get balance, don't try to deny that.
All the other cards were just fluff, bole is not helpful, spear is w/e, arrow nobody likes that but samurai and blm but they rather have balance, nobody likes spire, ewer is ok but again, not really needed and from what I seen all the statics I been in with an astro, they almost never use that, its very situational because they only use it if the other healer died.

I get the other cards were still fun to play around with but nobody really cares about the other cards but people that just want variety for the sake of variety. Your I identity is still there, you use cards to buff people and get seals to use a powerful heal or something.
I get your upset and other people as well but people here need to stop acting like the other cards besides balance was useful.