Quote Originally Posted by AmyRae View Post
Just because they limited the Thaumaturge's curing abilities doesn't mean class = role. All along, the classes have certain abilities that can't be shared, and among the ones that can be shared, they are limited in potency when used off-class. The classes were never meant to be completely identical to each other at any point in time. That was never the intention with the Armory System.

It's as simple as this: Thaumaturges weren't meant to be better healers than Conjurers. So they got nerfed.
A) The entire thaumaturge class is based on life/death and healing.

B) Conjurer and Thaum were both given healing abilities because they were both meant to have capacity to be healers.

C) conj was never meant to be isolated as "the healer class". Thm was never meant to be isolated as the "not healer class". Now Conj has been isolated as the healer class. Now conj = healer. Now conjurer is equated with the role of healing. Hence class now equates to role. Hence armory system has changed from being a system based on versatility and customisation to being repositioned as a "this is your class, this is your role" system.