Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
A bit ironic, that.

The "so much better than healers" gameplay is...basically what the Healer Jobs are right now, just the heals are GCDs.

Kinda supports what I said - remove all oGCD heals from the game. The abilities can exist, just they have to be GCDs. That would change how people view this in a heartbeat.
With a few small accommodations... yeah, kinda.

I still like having some oGCD heal options (such as via Aetherflow, ideally opposite both Energy Drain and Bane), and it's not the only way to deal with MP being irrelevant (there is absolutely no reason to only allow DRK MP costs on abilities), but just loosening the glut of Healers' output that can only be used on heals (especially, in such a low-damage-taken context that they make the earlier kit redundant) could go a long way.

2) Political example - No, it's not like that at all. It's like if 25% of people want to fund police, fire, health, and post respectively, but want their chosen one to get all the funds, and someone says "Why don't we just give each one 25% of the budget?"
This gets back to the fundamental question you still have yet to actually argue: Why would the matter of excess skill-ceiling be zero-sum?

You have yet to give a compelling argument for why it would be. Why does others having more kit available to them for highly diminished and merely excess rewards, which you are not thereby compelled to use any more than the portions of your kit that are already optional (and are already not particularly used by most players)-- necessarily make the experience worse for those who want to use them?

If I don't want to go into debt, does my credit cap increasing force me to do so, or does the addition remain just as irrelevant as what came before?
If I don't want to go to college and would have enough to live a happy (if not, all else considered, happier) life without it, does it being available hurt me?
Does it hurt me that there are pro basketball players who can do far more than I can when I just want to have a bit of fun with the basics and that's good enough for playing the only people I care to play with?