Disrespectful and Dismissive.

[Hatstand]

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Laria, looking at the live letter I’m struggling to see how you’re justifying your claims. They say that they recognise that there’s a problemwith NIN and that they haven’t fixed it yet because of the way the moves are interacting and they expect to have a fix out in 1.0. It seems quite a stretch to say that they intend to do the same thing with healers when they had many opportunities to mention it but didn’t. If SE had plans to give AST some shiny new toys don’t you think that they might have thrown it in on the AST question to take the edge off? If they had something for SCH don’t you think they might have mentioned it in the tooltip question? There were plenty of other questions where they teased something tangentially related in their answer. Instead they told us that they had no plans to change AST cards and we got radio silence on everything else.

Fine tuning NIN’s dps kit is something SE has been doing regularly for years. Adding to SCH’s dps kit without simultaneously gutting it is something they’ve literally never done. I just don’t see your argument.

As for the changes they’ve made so far, I was optimistic after patch 5.05, too, but then the live letter killed that for me. It’s obvious that there is discontent in the healing community and yet we’re the only role that didn’t receive assurances that they’re still working on addressing our concerns. Given that, it seems more likely that they think they’ve done enough and plan to leave it be except for maybe a potency fix or two. Personally, if they tell us that they’re working on something, and give an indication that it involves more offensive abilities and is meant to directly address the downtime problem, I would not be nearly so up in arms. Until then, here I am.

I’m glad you and your friends are enjoying healing, and I agree that AST numbers will probably go up. I doubt they’ll become even with the other healers but I think there will be some players (not necessarily a majority) who held off because they felt the class wasn’t powerful enough, and while a lot of those would probably go for one of the other classes which still seem more powerful I’m sure some of them will switch. However...

It seems like with this change they’ve made AST (and to a lesser extent SCH) accessible to people who previously didn’t like that style of healing, but already liked another. On the flip side you have AST players who loved AST for its unique style, who now have no other class to turn to. Personally, I think it’s more important for those people to get their favourite class back than for others to have a second option.