Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
People keep bringing up "healers should have rotations like tanks" and shoot down that they effectively have something very similar to WAR.
When people say "like tanks" why does it have to be a complete 1:1? That's why I asked my question by the way, but more to the point - actually LOOK at a tank's kit. Look at how many mitigations they have including role actions - their actual "job/role". Then look at their DPS actions.

And ultimately - look at how encounter design works for them.

All of the mitigations have various strengths and recast timers that (even in a normal dungeon situation) don't always line up for a tankbuster. There aren't various tankbusters that hit at different strengths (sadly) for you to "pick the best one" based off the CDs you have up, but it does it's job. And when the mitigation requirement is filled they have a dps rotation that is interesting enough to occupy their time since they don't have to move the boss to X position, don't have aggro management etc.

Now compare that to their "sister" role of healers:

We have massive amounts of healing tools we don't need. Quite literally every tool we gained in EW and some we gained in Shb we don't even NEED to use in the vast majority of content. We have no secondary job to serve: no managing of buffs outside of SCH/AST (and even then its on a 15s CD), no managing of debuffs, no mana management, no CD management because all our tools have a short recast timer (GCDs) or are on the 60s recast timer that FOR SOME REASON is around the time a raid wide is up so we use the same damn tool that also is instant cast and costs NO MANA.

And our "reward" unlike tanks isn't a burst rotation akin to Fell Cleave etc but amounts to a DoT and a one button press that all but 1 get at level f-ing 4.

But Toxicon and Misery I hear. But nothing. Ah yes, a "reward" system that doesn't do its job properly because they're locked behind HEALING that we don't need to use instead of being an option to use when we have nothing to heal.

What you're failing to understand despite having tried to explain it to you multiple times at this point is thus:

if tanks can do their job and have more than a DoT nuke rotation, so can healers.

Does it need to be a 1-2-3? No. CAN it be a 1-2-3? Yes. Do we WANT a 1-2-3? Depends on who you ask.