Is the "healing portion" of healers hitting a wall in EW?

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I mean I use every action and ogcd on Sage because there's always a time and place and use for them. You can weave gcd heals with ogcd heals or dps with ogcd heals. I don't stand there like an NPC casting the same spell over and over.

I think we'll see here in a few months what the AST and DRG reworks looks like. It will give a good indication as to which way the wind is blowing in regards to plans for not just healers, but all classes in the future.

One need only look at new summoner at 19 buttons, not counting role actions (NCRA for short from now on), or Monk (22 NCRA) and then compare it to things like WHM (25 NCRA) or AST (28 NCRA) or SCH (26 NCRA) or SGE (the lowest, probably because it's the newest) at 23 buttons NCRA. Of course some of these are morphing buttons and when one factors that into SMN it's probably like 40+ abilities (I'm not counting all of that stuff to get an exact number), but the distinct impression I am getting from people is they don't just want a 1-1-1-1-1 that turns into 1-(alt)-1-(alt)-1-(alt). That is still, as people have said many times, "just pressing one button."

If you are not pressing x to doubt the concept they are going to be adding yet more buttons to healers, you are not paying attention to how class reworks have been going. Post simplification yes, before that, no. And yes, I would put down $100 down on any table in Vegas right now with zero hesitation that AST comes out of it's rework vastly simplified, and they will be very irate about it.

* This is from doing a quick count against bars, I might have screwed up here or there and counted something like Esuna for one and not another, so these might be off but I doubt it's by more than one.