Quote Originally Posted by CrimRaiOh View Post
i seemed to remember reading some where yoshi p wanted healers to be more focused around healing and not dpsing. As one of the favorite uses for lustrate was healing while in cleric stance it seemed like this was an intentional move to make scholars not hands down the best dps healer. the only potential positives people were seeing in the change is now they could amp up lustrates with buffs.
right now i see buffed physicks hitting WARs as hard as lustrate.

the NPC part i can understand. it was too strong on them.
i really just want to be able to buff "ability" heals.
Even if you're using Eos' Fey Illumination and cast Physick on a Defiance-enabled WAR, you won't have quite the potency of Lustrate. With more CDs/buffs involved, yes, could exceed Lustrate's power, but only for a short time.

Making Lustrate a potency-based heal (incidentally affected by MND now), doesn't change anything for SCHs who are accustomed to DPSing in all kinds of content since most Aetherflow stacks were spent on Energy Drains and Banes, anyway, with maybe 1 stack held in reserve so that you could risk eeking out one more Ruin or refreshing one more DoT while the tank's HP became critical. The only change the Lustrate rework did for SCH DPS is to force us to click off CS before using it (and if you're going to click off CS to heal, you're probably just going to Physick/Adlo and pop back into CS, anyway).

What Yoshida said most recently was that bit about raid minimum clear DPS not being set with healer DPS as an expectation due to how it would boost the difficulty too high, but that they acknowledged that players leveraged healer DPS to help meet DPS checks, especially when below the minimum ilvl that the devs designed the raid around.