The State of Homogenization: A New (Healer) Player's Perspective

[Elesh]

They are not the same thing? You are correct in some respects but whm has a unfair disadvantage for regen cure and cure 2. There are differences sure but they are in essence exactly the same thing serving the same exact function similar to Aetherflow on scholar and Addersgall for Sage you can even throw Lillies from whm except the unfairness of it being on the global.

I said that those specific spells were the only things thaty WERE the same.(although I don't consider regen and aspected benefic to be the same) - the basic building blocks are the same. But while Assize and Earthly Star both serve the same function of 'damage + healing', and while Tetra and ED both serve the same function of 'emergency heal'... they aren't identical. Down the board. Outside of the BASIC building blocks... every tool past that serves a similar PURPOSE but in a different way. Liturgy vs Macro. Opposition vs Afflatus Rapture. Temperance vs Neutral Sect. They serve similar purposes... but play differently. Neutral sect gives shields while temperance reduces damage taken. Similar effect, but not the same. Rapture is on the gcd and requires a lily while also enabling the blood lily. Opposition is ogcd but has a large cooldown and provides a regen. Both give aoe healing, but don't feel the same to have.

Like down the line... the healers have toolkits that serve the same purpose, but they don't do it in the same way. It's important they have these tools. You can't have a healer that can't aoe heal because they'd be useless. So you NEED tools that serve the same purpose. But the important part is that they function in different methods - different resources used, casting methods, secondary effects, cooldowns, etc.

Only the base toolkit of like cure 1, cure 2, medica, raise, glare, dia, medica 2 are 'identical'.