Quote Originally Posted by Izar_Chillen View Post
The missing spells thing sounds horrendous . Im kinda glad I didnt have to go through that . What you described in 4.0 sounds good though . This aero 3 multi npc dot sounds like it was a good thing , why on earth did they remove it?

Was there a large influx of new players in the 4.0 era that weren't to keen on the extra dps abilities or struggled with healing in general? It seems odd that if it was enjoyed by many , why they felt the need to change so much , unless there were more wishes to make healing easier via forums/feedback, than not.
We have a thread going on at the moment: Toxic Glare spammers.

A lot of veteran healers suspect the gutting of their damaging kits is due to the complains of Dps players about some healers focusing on dpsing and not healing them. The devs did say they wanted healers to focus on healing more, and gave that as an argument for "simplifying" the healer dps kit.

Ironically, the removal of AoE dots makes it so that healers now have to individually target enemies in dungeon packs to dot each one of them, which steals their focus away from the tank during a critical moment of high damage, so you tell me.

The healer community is more or less convinced at this point that the devs didn't really know what they were doing in regards to healer class design.