Quote Originally Posted by MintnHoney View Post
<some personal insults alongside some otherwise good discussion topics>
No, Semirhage's point seems to be that they like doing damage and want a more buttons damage kit. It has nothing to do with being an "idiot" or not.

AST also makes no sense for the simple gameplay, since the point of having a simple Job is for it to be...simple...and AST isn't. As I noted above, WHM has the most straightforward and direct healing kit. I contrasted Tetra and Essential Dignity to make this point, but I can pick out just about any other set of comparable abilities and show that the AST ones have more nuance and the WHM ones are straighforward "just the facts, ma'am" abilities to do the job at hand.

Enjoying healing tends to mean enjoying healing...not enjoying dpsing. Indeed, many people that play healers (and to a lesser extent, tanks) in MMOs do so explicitly because they find DPS rotations unsatisfying or unenjoyable to perform.

But hey, since you don't like my suggestion, I guess it means you prefer the alternative? STICKING WITH WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW WITH NO CHANGES?

Because make no mistake, that IS the alternative. In making the perfect the enemy of the good, you sacrifice any shot at your perfect. I'm perfectly content with everything remaining as it is today, too. By your words, I would wager you are not. What I'm proposing is the compromise position.