Which healing job are they gonna gut for Sage?

[ItMe]

HoTs already stack and always have. Double shields will be so much worse since shields have never stacked (well, Stoneskin and Galvanize stacked but Stoneskin wasn't easily spammable.)

Perhaps this is something they'll change?
Granted, they're pushing for 1 pure/1 shield comps, but I don't see how they could entertain the idea of any comp being viable without them stacking.

[LisSquid]

Perhaps this is something they'll change?
Granted, they're pushing for 1 pure/1 shield comps, but I don't see how they could entertain the idea of any comp being viable without them stacking.

I think people are a little too hopeful. We're already aware SE doesn't play a lot of healers or have any real interest in their gameplay. They only brought back energy drain for SCHs because we kicked and screamed about it.

[ItMe]

I think people are a little too hopeful. We're already aware SE doesn't play a lot of healers or have any real interest in their gameplay. They only brought back energy drain for SCHs because we kicked and screamed about it.

Then let's kick and scream harder > : )
Maybe then they'll get a dedicated healer on the design team.

[LisSquid]

Then let's kick and scream harder > : )
Maybe then they'll get a dedicated healer on the design team.

Healers grab your piety materia, we're going to throw them at the doors of SE HQ until our voices are heard!

[Brightamethyst]

Shields don't stack because it'd be super OP in way that HoT stacking is not. Regens are extra healing while shields are extra max HP. If shields stacked a lot of mechanics could be ignored completely as effective HP would be so much higher.

[SieyaM]

I think a lot of people are way too optimistic about AST. Experience makes me believe that all they will do is lock AST into diurnal and call it a day, no new skills other than the ones gained after 80 and no reworks except maybe some potency changes.

[Brightamethyst]

Yeah. It's weird to see people so excited and optimistic about healer changes. Every single expansion launch to date has been an absolute disaster for healers. Clearly no one on the dev team has ever actually played a healer before because that's the only explanation I can think of to explain it all.

[LisSquid]

Yeah. It's weird to see people so excited and optimistic about healer changes. Every single expansion launch to date has been an absolute disaster for healers. Clearly no one on the dev team has ever actually played a healer before because that's the only explanation I can think of to explain it all.

People in this thread are excited while healers who have lived through the SB/ShB healer "improvements" are like

[Enla]

Yeah. It's weird to see people so excited and optimistic about healer changes. Every single expansion launch to date has been an absolute disaster for healers. Clearly no one on the dev team has ever actually played a healer before because that's the only explanation I can think of to explain it all.

And it hasn't gotten better recently either. Like the changes a couple patches ago where they nerfed Energy Drain because the dev team was unhappy that SCH's were using it for the majority of their Aetherflow stacks instead of it's intended purpose of being used for healing. Instead of, you know, trying to understand why the class is being predominantly playing in an antithetical way to it's intended design they simply doubled down on their skewed perceptions. They legitimately have no idea what they're doing.

[ItMe]

It makes me wonder... if healing is only just getting worse and worse... what would it take for those unhappy with it to finally drop it?