Healers need an overhaul

[Supersnow845]

I love healers are they are and I don't want a more complicated DPS rotation! Not everyone shares the same taste.

Sure but why do all 4 healers need to revolve around 1 taste, like we don’t make every class a proc based free form rotation class because some people love current BRD

My problem is they had this right years ago, WHM really hasn’t changed much, why did SCH and AST have to be gutted because some people liked WHM

[Deceptus]

Sure but why do all 4 healers need to revolve around 1 taste, like we don’t make every class a proc based free form rotation class because some people love current BRD

My problem is they had this right years ago, WHM really hasn’t changed much, why did SCH and AST have to be gutted because some people liked WHM

Unfortunately AST was always the problem child ever since it was implemented. It was either too strong in the healing department with the benefits of card buffs, or it was average and the card buffs didn't bring it up to par with SCH/WHM.

So SE's grand solution was to bring both SCH and WHM to the AST DPS model of a single dot and a single filler spell (riveting gameplay!). Where they screwed up royally is AST had that dps rotation BECAUSE most of their downtime was spent with cards.

So pre-Endwalker we had 2 healers, that didn't have constant job identity actions every 30s, using the model of a job that did and It.Just.Didn't.Work.

It's not fun.

[IDontPetLalas]

Unfortunately AST was always the problem child ever since it was implemented. It was either too strong in the healing department with the benefits of card buffs, or it was average and the card buffs didn't bring it up to par with SCH/WHM.

So SE's grand solution was to bring both SCH and WHM to the AST DPS model of a single dot and a single filler spell (riveting gameplay!). Where they screwed up royally is AST had that dps rotation BECAUSE most of their downtime was spent with cards.

So pre-Endwalker we had 2 healers, that didn't have constant job identity actions every 30s, using the model of a job that did and It.Just.Didn't.Work.

It's not fun.

Only "most of AST downtime being occupied with cards" isn't even the case, it's only a fraction of downtime. Most of it is still hitting 1 DPS button, it's only marginally more interesting,

I would expect that the opener is where a fair number of people might disagree that AST can be more challenging to play well.