New healer: Sage. Barrier healer.

[currentlemon]

On the one hand I get what you're saying.

On the other hand, they've already proven that they don't understand healing in general.. you add the fact that they are re-working astro again to make this other healer "work" and now adjusting queues (which will make some queues suck in my opinion) just for so that this new concept could work... well you can understand how people are already up in arms.

Hey, I'm on edge as well. I get why healer mains are anxious. If SE fails to learn anything from their past mistake with healers and tanks, I might just stick to DPS jobs. But I'll give Yoshi-P and the battle devs a chance. Even though the bar isn't high.

[Semirhage]

Umm... it's just a 50 second trailer. Showing only one healer. And only three abilities! I know people are on guard after SE did what they did this expansion, and believe me, I'll be more than happy to criticize them with the rest of you all if they make the same mistake. But for the love of God, please be patient. We'll get more info as time goes on.

I'm gonna sit back with my bucket of popcorn and watch from my RDM seat. "Pure healer" was head-in-rectum design *both* expansions thus far they applied that "identity" to the role, so I'm going to sit back and watch them utterly fail to give WHM a niche that isn't "overhealer of the year". Maybe AST will join in on that fun this time around.

We were told to wait and see both those times too. Let's see. Next comes ability descriptions which may look alarming. Forums will be told "this is just a dev build!" "Potencies aren't set in stone!". Next comes release day, with the attendant "Wait for patches". And finally "You can't expect changes mid-expansion, wait for next one!"

I switched to DPS for a reason, yo. If anyone here thinks these are forewarnings of another expansion where glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare glare is the soup du jour, then your solution is to level a DPS. Don't settle for Stockholm.

[GrimGale]

I'm rather dissapointed. I was hoping for something that wasn't another graceful light-flinging spin mage.

[Darkstride]

I'm rather dissapointed. I was hoping for something that wasn't another graceful light-flinging spin mage.

I was hoping that a new healer would be something more aggressive. Like a leach-healer that heals or stores healing abilities by dealing damage.

[GrimGale]

To be fair, Sage looks pretty agressive, with the lasers and whatnot. I was mostly talking about aesthetics. Its another light-based mage. Its like a Shield White Mage.

[Delis]

I was hoping that a new healer would be something more aggressive. Like a leach-healer that heals or stores healing abilities by dealing damage.

I was hoping for that too, but thinking about it, that would be rough to balance. It would always take a spot in 8 mans because why would you not take a healer, that pumps out dps as a part of its healing? Maybe not give it a dot, and have the damage that would come from a dot be the damage they'd by healing? But 5ha5 seems like more issues as you would then lose damage if you are not healing, maybe a regen/dot type spell?

[HyoMinPark]

Let's not forget that they're sticking to the "pure healer" semantics. lol. That doesn't say much but it's all adding up.

I’m fairly certain it’s been said before that “pure healer” is just the terminology they use for “regen healer”. Not “pure healer” in the sense of “no damage-healing only” healer.

[AnotherPerson]

I'm not against the new healer - it looks aesthetically pleasing to me. Kinda like green RDM, but we'll have to see how the healers toolkits have changed accordingly before judging.

[IceBlueNinja]

While astro is gonna maybe lose stance I must laugh at to this day how ignorant and stubborn these scholar lovers are stating how scholar have the biggest shields , let us see both aspected helios and succor migitates 125% block however aspected helios slighty is better because it has has a 200 pot and and succor 180, now aspected benefic vs alco , aspected benefic is a 200 pot heal with a instant 250% migi block. scholar alco is 300 pot with a 125% only block and that is only when you get a cata for the extra 125 shield for the 250% only then alo win, else in the end aspected benefic still wins. lets not forget noct field + celestial option shields all stack for a 250% migitation for the entire team, can a sch do that? Finally 2 ast both netrual sect with celestial op/nocturnal balance ,celestial opposition all can stack for a total of 7 regens and 4 shields a whopping 50k+ tick or regen while a whooping 500% migitation, so please stop crapping on ast noct stance and just face the fact ast is always the best migitation. people are just so regen obsessed that they fail to see nocts power. Just look at my rdm friend with 110k something hp and I cover his whole bar with just my ast.

[HyoMinPark]

While astro is gonna maybe lose stance I must laugh at to this day how ignorant and stubborn these scholar lovers are stating how scholar have the biggest shields , let us see both aspected helios and succor migitates 125% block however aspected helios slighty is better because it has has a 200 pot and and succor 180, now aspected benefic vs alco , aspected benefic is a 200 pot heal with a instant 250% migi block. scholar alco is 300 pot with a 125% only block and that is only when you get a cata for the extra 125 shield for the 250% only then alo win, else in the end aspected benefic still wins. lets not forget noct field + celestial option shields all stack for a 250% migitation for the entire team, can a sch do that? Finally 2 ast both netrual sect with celestial op/nocturnal balance ,celestial opposition all can stack for a total of 7 regens and 4 shields a whopping 50k+ tick or regen while a whooping 500% migitation, so please stop crapping on ast noct stance and just face the fact ast is always the best migitation. people are just so regen obsessed that they fail to see nocts power

So your only issue with that is that you better have all of those cast pre-pull since you can’t swap sects mid-combat, thereby taking away a lot of that shielding power you’re boasting in this image.