Quote Originally Posted by Fendred View Post
I disagree entirely. Healers are first responders to damage. Giving us a DPS rotation muddles the responsibility and we already have a case for why it would be a bad idea. The current data shows that the second they made meaningful healer checks in 6.2 raids, everyone dropped astrologian for white mage and sage due to being unable to tap astrologian's full potential. Being that astrologian is the closest thing we have to a healer with a full DPS rotation we can tell that (a) the ability bar gets bloated to high hell and (b) its disappointing to have to sacrifice the DPS for healing when heal checks come up. For healers, there is no perfect solution. There is only alternatives. I'd rather have meaningful healer checks with minimal DPS input required from healers than require they do damage. Even if they could do damage, they would never be able to do it consistently due to their first responder role. To do meaningful DPS consistently, the responsibility of healing would need to belong to all players and not just a healer role. That would be a totally different game system.
Wait, how in the seven hells does AST have anything close to a DPS rotation? People don't like AST because it has a bloated opener for setting up future healing and its convoluted card system--something that is not synonymous with a DPS rotation.