Please Nerf Shield Healer Pure Heals

[Saefinn]

As someone who runs DRK and uses Living Dead... please don't.

Lustrate. It's what I used to do in HW. As I am using 2.0 SCH as a point of reference, Lustrate I wouldn't expect to be nerfed into the ground.

They said they would make the split between shields and pure heals, yet mentioned that it would not divide healers in 2 different new roles. Them mentioning this might imply that healers (especially SCH and AST I presume) will receive significant changes, but not to the point of creating 2 sub roles.

I don't know if it will mean significant changes, which is my worry just because it seems like they already consider WHM as a pure healer and SCH as a shield healer and AST in the middle but of course how they're played contradicts that. I hope it does mean significant changes to achieve the distinction, but of course i have my concerns and feel certain changes are need to make it possible.

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I'm semi-casual. I think the best point of reference for this distinction is 2.0 because is the last they did this successfully IMO. And we had to take all those scenarios into consideration too. So I am proposing an evolution of this, if they do an evolution of it, then they can achieve their goal IMO.

I think part of the problem is the perception that a shield has to be preemptive. The example I gave of how you might do a reactive heal, was that a shield can also be used to protect people as you're getting their health back up. I also referred to how Seraph could help me more help with that if her shields get a bit of buffing too. This was how I used to handle it, just using Succor or Adloquium and then use other healing tools to get the HP backup, but now out pet can help more with that.

A "shield" focus doesn't mean you cut out all potent heals just like a "pure" healer doesn't mean it can have useful shields (as there's situations where shields are needed/useful). As my example to quote above, Lustrate.

Taking the flip side. Although WHM is a "pure" healer, it still has shields from Divine Benison. Diurnal AST is a "pure" healer, but has Neutral Sect and Celestial Intersection. But I think at the current balance on SCH for "pure" and "shield" healing is off and is not fit for that distinction, it should be shield focused where the pure is secondary. And vice versa for a pure healer. So there can be some crossover. They'd need to nerf the pure side and buff the shield side enough to swap the focus.