Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
I wouldn't call DoTs gameplay unless there are meaningful interactions with them. Without that, they're just 'bigger potency' buttons you can't push all the time.

I've missed Aero 3's animation more than I have the spell itself.
And that's fair, and the case far more for Aero III (which was a 120% GCD cast and then a 100% GCD cast) than for Aero II / Dia, which at least provide opportunities for mobility and weaving, and which we kept probably for that exact reason.

I'm just saying that there's no spell past the first couple we've ever "needed" in terms of HPS or DPS, given that the others could just be tuned higher to compensate for the loss. The question has always been and always will be what gameplay they permit.

Do we want a gamestate that allows for (a more polished and appealing version of) Cure/Benefic/Physick to see use, or do we not? That's the question here, not the HPS or DPS that comes with button pruning, since those matters (after a single hotfix, at most) quickly end up at little to no net change.