Disrespectful and Dismissive.

[LariaKirin]

You did not make it clear that you were only talking about 5.1 in the slightest. Also, they've demonstrated nothing with ninja yet. All they did that say that changes were coming. Remember when they said that we weren't getting another healer because they were so hard at work on the current 3 healers, only to give us the healers that we got now? Yeah I remember too.

Absolutely did. The words "latest live letter" and "I wonder how that will turn out" make it perfectly clear. If you cannot make that connection, that is on you.

I'm not here to talk philosophy either, glad we're on the same page. Me saying that you're making assumptions has nothing to do with philosophy. I've seen you throw around the term "straw man" a few times here. I'm going to say that what you're doing here is more of a straw man than anything you've accused of being a straw man was.

... I said I don't know what they're planning and that it's based on observation of their behavior. Yet what you're interested in talking seems to be assumptions and what we can't or cannot prove.

I could take the quote below and write "assumption" on most of these statements too. I won't do that, because I understand that you're not making these statements as a matter of absolute certainty, but based on observable recent behavior from Squeenix.

And this is where the problem lies. Their vision of healers sucks. It's boring and not fun to play for many. It's quite obvious that they don't want healers to have many dps spells. It's also obvious that players do not appreciate this design decision. It wouldn't be such a big deal (to me at least) if I weren't dpsing for pretty much the entire time of almost every encounter. Their design choices contradict each other here. They don't want us to dps, yet that's pretty much all we do in optimal play. This is why I call the devs clueless when it comes to healers.

I don't understand why you're saying they don't want us to DPS... They do, because that's why we have DPS buttons.

Here's another thing I will call an asumption. Unless you work for square enix, there is no way that you could claim this with certainty. There is literally no good reason why they can't add back some deleted skills for the duration of 5.x and remove them again when they are ready to introduce more better designed skills. No philosophy here, but feel free to straw man if you like.

Do I really have to put a disclaimer on every single statement explaining that it's not a claim of certainty, but based on observation of Squeenix' behavior?

Here's two versions of scholar:
- Current 5.05 SCH
- Current 5.05 SCH with Miasma, Shadowflare, Bane.
Which of these two versions do you think is more likely to receive new abilities, given Squeenix' recent behavior?