Quote Originally Posted by Yakugami View Post
ewer/spire were unnecessary and would be even more so in this expansion, quite literally for spire, only "meh" for ewer
Spire needed a rework yes, but Ewer would never have been unnecessary this expansion. Actually its more Ewer is even more necessary this expansion then it was last expansion and we simply do not have it. As a result Noct is even weaker then it should be and our increased need to GCD heal gives us the worst MP economy of all the healers. I am sure WHM would be feeling it if you took away Assize 5% MP recovery and Thin Air then made it more dependent on GCD healing. SCH would be feeling it if Aetherflow lost its MP recovery and SCH had to GCD heal more often.

Quote Originally Posted by Yakugami View Post
bole was useless (you shouldn't need external, randomly generated damage mitigation, that's something that should be consistent)
Bole was never useless, and was a key contributor in helping AST deal with large pulls and deal with high impact TBs, because AST lacked the big healing options that other healers had. Being able to throw down a tank cooldown was never useless. Throwing an Enhanced Bole and extending its time on a tank gave them the equivalent of being able to chain 3 rampart cooldowns that they could stack other cooldowns on top of. Allowing the healers to pump out more DPS and given the healers more time to boost rDPS because of reduced need to GCD heal.