Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
The key difference with the BLU suggestion I made is that someone who is interested in BLU is not restricted to the 1-button DPS dilemma. They can switch to DPS BLU or Tank BLU which would have far more diverse offensive libraries.
It has 5 DPS abilities, not 1, though?

My point was if we did do something like:

"Give SCH players 2 DoTs, make one of them a Hardcast, and give them Tri-Disaster and make Aetherflow reset the cooldown of said Tri-Disaster. Let WHM stay exactly the same so that we can meme on it for being the baby healer. Bring back Nocturnal AST. Bring back AOE DoTs. And make SGE have some wack-a-- over complicated DPS rotation that baffles people's minds...and see if they embrace it or not.

If someone complains that they need to be rewarded with more DPS for their complicated Job; simply tell them that the reward is being able to have fun, and not being bored out of their ----ing minds. Shut the ---- up about a whole 2% DPS variance."
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...then that would fix this problem because SCH and SGE would already fit that bill.

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Honestly, I HAVE thought of the CNJ thing before. Also that ACN should split into both SMN and Evoker (Evoker should be New SMN, SMN should be Old SMN. Though I guess they could reverse those...) [oh, and also make a simple GEO to branch off CNJ so CNJ/WHM/GEO could be "the baby healer/dps" one]. If we had a slight bit more flexibility and creativity...but the Devs seem to kind of want to pretend 1.0 and the Class system never existed at this point. But having one be the GCD Healer with a simple rotation and the other being more complex would be a possible solution, though they'd have to change how Traits work, otherwise WHM would still inherit the CNJ Trait that ups the Stone damage.

There are plenty of ways to deal with the problem, it's just doing it.

Either way, it would fall under the "Four/Five/Six Healers Model", no matter what number we use. That's 100% the very argument I've been pushing all this time.

I'm...glad you're coming around to it, I guess? /shrug

And I don't mean THAT facetiously. If you actually do kind of agree with me on that, great. My version is actually more extensive than yours (since it wouldn't be JUST BLU Healer for players that want more DPS rotation, it would also include SCH and SGE, and AST would have a more buff focused gameplay to draw away from its GCD Malificspam), but it's the same/close enough general position we should be able to dovetail.