Quote Originally Posted by Pip_Chick View Post
Man... this made me remember Diurnal/Nocturnal sect Astro. It was so fun choosing which sect to pick based on my co healers.
When the Nocturnal sect got removed for the "split between pure and shield healers" I was so sad.
I would really like if we got the 2 sects back and be left to choose which we prefered. Can we have it back please?
Honestly, diurnal/nocturnal never should have been a thing. It was a bandaid to force the healer to heal like a WHM or SCH at a time when it was inferior to both (literally, the class flat launched in a worthless state and had trouble healing the dungeons of HW.)

But, what I want is really to have uniqueness breathed into healer (and tank) design. The buster meta FFXIV uses is extremely toxic to the game as a whole, but especially tank and healer design. AST happens to be a poster child of this because it flat couldn't heal well enough until it was turned into a copy of both healers that preceded it with the push of a button, with one of those 2 (SCH) also being turned into the other (WHM.)

So long as the concept of tank busters exist as a major and primary mechanic of fight design, both healers and tanks will continue to have terrible, homogenized gameplay full of binary pass-fails and no uniqueness to speak of. Just think, Synnastry could have been a stance, and AST could have been closer to WoW's paladin circa legion era. But alas, the devs don't understand how to make anything unique anymore, and long ago abandoned the concept of uniqueness.