Disrespectful and Dismissive.

[LariaKirin]

It depends entirely on what you consider to be "replacing."

Not interested in semantics or cross-expansion examples. I'm clearly talking about patch 5.1 and future possibilities. They've demonstrated that they are willing to make major changes to jobs, at least with NIN.

Assumption: You think that having older spells will prevent SE from creating newer more interesting spells, for whatever reason. Also that kinda contradicts you saying that you "don't know what they're planning."

Assumption: "The focus of SHB has clearly been healer balance and making them blank slates." If they said anything about "blank slates" please point me into the direction where I can find where this was said. Otherwise, it is your assumption that "blank slates" was their goal. It is my assumption that they just do not know how healing works in this game. Neither of us can prove either of these claims.

Yes, yes, nothing is provable. Everything can be reduced to an assumption. I'm not interested in philosophy.

I don't know what they're planning. This is observation:
1. Healers are more balanced than ever. (5.05)
2. Healer basic DPS abilities have been reduced to a single target, a dot and an aoe spell. This is obviously intentional, they are not monkeys punching their keyboards until something happens.
3. They do not want healers to have too many DPS abilities. In case you couldn't tell.

In my mind, this is a question of asking for what we want most vs asking for what we are most likely to get.

Yes, and I'm saying ask for what we want most. Because if the old skills come back, we're not getting anything else. Btw, if they're doing it, it's not only gonna be SCH - I would argue that reverting the healers to a previous expansion is less likely than adding a new skill.

I don't see how either of these are open to interpretation and they essentially carry the same implications. Perhaps you meant differently from what you said, but I'm not a mind reader, sorry.

"They deleted your abilities to make room for new ones" directly implies that they deleted the abilities with the purpose of replacing them with something else.
"Keeping Bane, Miasma and Shadowflare precludes SCH from getting anything better in the future" implies that we could potentially get new abilities, but not if we get these 3 abilities back. Because observation says that Squeenix does not want healers to have many DPS abilities.

[tikiwiki]

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2. Healer basic DPS abilities have been reduced to a single target, a dot and an aoe spell. This is obviously intentional, they are not monkeys punching their keyboards until something happens.
3. They do not want healers to have too many DPS abilities. In case you couldn't tell.

why cant we have different damage spell like we used to though id like as a sch to feel different from white mage i picked sch in arr for our damage abilities and pet management and both are gone i cant control embrace and pet skills are just ogcds and why cant i have the damage skills, why do we have to be the same