Please make healing more worthwhile than Dps-ing

[Sloprano]

Scholars all around the world had to deal with five dots and stance dancing in HW and things were going well. But apparently SE thinks players have become dumber over the years...?

I don't want to believe there's anything malicious going on. Just think they are convinced they are doing Scholars (and to my limited knowledge of them, AST and WHM) favors by removing Cleric stance, baking offensive spells into each other, removing nuance spells, streamlining identities, hand out oGCD heals like candy etc. But I wanted to chain myself to these abilities when they came in with the cleaver and shouting "No no, overcoming these incoinveniences are what makes the job so fun!" In their mind, being able to do 10 0000 damage with a single spell seems to be the more lucrative playstyle instead of having it ramp up by being a risky stance, apply several dots in prepared order, actually have to get dangerously close for Miasma 2, casting 3.0s Shadowflare while needing to keep an eye on party healthbars, Lily and boss' castbar for mitigation. Then further forget Ruin/Broil exists because at the point you have nothing else left to do, the fight is over.

Well, they had to change it because Scholar is the only heaer in game. If you liked healing but didn't like DoTs you literally had no other options.

Hehe, it's almost like there isn't three jobs in the role that couldn't afford to be strikingly different appealing to completely different playstyles. This might be in their grand plan for next expansion: "In ShB we Balanced healers, in 6.0 we balance Everything!"

And hey Tali, almost didn't recognize your portrait.

Or maybe they understand that tracking 5 dots on different timers is not fun, just tedious.

I don't know why the dots get brought up when obviously the best thing about HW was Cleric Stance.

Cleric Stance was great (in HW, not in SB and especially not in ShB on account for not existing except with a red line across it on hotbar#8.) but dots were also great. All five of them. So was Selene and the pet hotbar. And the Arcanist skills. I agree, standing before a training dummy apply the dots then stand around wasn't particulary engaging. On the other hand, apply five dots while in Cleric Stance, while Griffin is jumping back and forwards, while a DPS didn't run fast enough took an aoe to the face, the tank is in dps stance, while you're about to be shackled AND you see Aero is just about to drop off! Now that was fun. I've got so many more stories like that. The part of dodging stuff and party taking unnecessary damage still occurs, I just don't have a fraction of the things I used to be able to do while also watching out for the party or when doing stuff alone.