Quote Originally Posted by Saefinn View Post
The "what about dungeons or when your co-healer dies, hm???" is a mentality I don't like when people think about shield healers, because I guess there's this misconception that it makes them weaker or are a niche, which is closer to how the concept is played at the moment, but isn't the case when there is a shield focus because it changes how you interact with a person's health pool and this was a concept I really liked.
Oh totally, but go back to what Yoshi P has said back before SHB about reworking the healers for 5.0 and how they "had to" give SCH more direct heals(again), because they'd supposedly "struggled", while SB SCH was already an ogcd healing powerhouse that barely used shields at all. I'm not myself saying that shields can't be good for solo healing(when done properly of course) - just that SE is apparently convinced of that.

Really the biggest misconception is whatever the devs themselves believe about how healing works in this game.