Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
the question pointed to me
the reason it'd be different re: healers having training wheels vs a dps or a tank, is that healing is binary. either you have enough to not-wipe, or you dont and you wipe. if the hypothetical newer healer decides they've done enough glarespamming and wants to try SCH or AST, the sudden jump in complexity of how to manage a hypothetical 3 dots, micromanage the fairy's position, etc, would mean they drop a lot of damage when they start out. and yes, some would persist and start to get better, but i fear there would be a fair number who would just say 'screw this, i got better results as WHM and i know what im doing there' and go back. this isnt the case so much on DPS or tank, because 'doing it wrong' isnt as noticeable on those roles, and by the time you're at a point where 'doing it wrong' actually matters for anything on those roles (extreme trials probably), you'd be expected to understand how your class works regardless of role. besides that, anyone can pick up any tank after WAR, and be 'okay' at it enough to do some content, because the main 'tank' kit, that is, the mit, is very easy to translate across, nebula-shadowwall-sentinel-vengeance are all 2min, 30%'s, all have rampart, all have a 25ish (except DRK but i put TBN there), its the damage skills that set them apart from one another.

Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
the bit about people losing their classes
some of us healer mains are like ascians, they want the days of old back, SB SCH, SB AST cards, etc. They already lost their classes and want to go back. It's understandable, but perosnally I don't, partially because I acknowledge that SB cards were super imbalanced, but also cos the devs have said we're not going back to that design. So i'd rather focus on what we can do with the 'current' design, what we can build with this as a base. The real issue is, let me illustrate with a picture in MSPaint:



I just want to stop adding to the trunk, and have more branches and leaves to fill out how 'naked' this very sad looking tree is