Quote Originally Posted by Billythepancake View Post
Really? I see most people begging to go back to HW healers more than I see people saying HW healers were bad. (except for maybe launch AST, which was just laughably weak, not complex.)
It really depends.

HW was the worst balance healers had ever seen. When seesawed from AST being utter garbage to WHM being utter garbage. SCH god tier the whole way through. End of SB was a bit comparable, but not as bad.

But it was also a time when a good healer could out DPS a bad DPS (which can't really happen now even if the DPS is dead for a minute+). And some people may have liked certain elements from HW. But anyone that wants a wholesale return to that period is looking at it through *very* rose tinted glasses.