Disrespectful and Dismissive.

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Because SE has quite obviously stated through action that healers will not get many DPS buttons. So if we do get any DPS actions, I think we all want them to be more interesting than Miasma or Shadowflare. Ideally, involving the fairy gauge.

That's fine and all, I'd be happy that these things are gone if we actually got something to replace them. You saying that these things can't exist because they would prevent new additions to our kit is pretty fallacious though. There is no reason that these abilities couldn't have been removed only when their suitable replacements were ready. Deleting them in 5.0 and leaving them gone for 2 years until they will (presumably) be replaced in 6.0 just makes no sense. Don't you think you're making a few too many assumptions here?

Also:

Then they really should have put the better stuff in. I'm getting tired of MMORPG developers telling me they've deleted my spells to make room for other stuff they haven't bothered to come up with yet. :/

I did not tell you that.

When you said the following:

The existence of Bane, Miasma, Shadowflare today would preclude the existence of anything better than that in the future.

????

You literally said it here lol