Quote Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe View Post
I just don't understand how, after all of SB, the decision was made that 'no actually we need to go further'. Like, I don't remember people complaining about SB requiring the SCHs to press 2 DOTs and an OGCD ground-DOT instead of the 1 we have now, back then. I remember them saying they wanted to have WHM focused on being 'the pure healer', and it being so bad that it was getting hardcore panned. So their solution was to make all the healers be like that, rather than accept that their idea for WHM was bad? It's ridiculous to even entertain the idea, but they not only did, they put it into practice
Funny thing is after ShB healer action culling andnthe announcement of EW I wondered what could they possibly add to healers that wasn't new DPS buttons. Back in Shb we had global mitigation, we had instant heals, aoe heals, free aoe heals, oGCD shields, oGCD regens, delayed healbombs and plenty of healing potency to go around. What else could we have needed in terms of support skills?

With such shallow DPS kits Endwalker was the perfect time to start building upon that "streamlining" vision for the DPS kits that the devs seemed to have had the expansion prior.

What did we get? More mitigation. More healing. Scholar but with DPS tools that turn out to be just nothing. More of the same.

To add insult to injury, the devs themselves admited to "be not sure what else they could have added to healers".