jpgames.de Gamescom 2015 interview with Naoki Yoshida

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I feel much the same way about his response to the loss of identity for WHM, he seems to thinK more powerful heals somehow fix the identity issue caused by homogonizing and nerfing many of the things specific to WHM. Removing their trait advantages on SS and Protect is a real kick in the nuts for WHM.

He did explain why they changed Stoneskin. Let's also remember that he wanted to get rid of Stoneskin when the game went from 1.0 to 2.0.

Protect is a problem if your plan is to have damage taken continue to scale. Considering you still need to level CNJ to get Protect, I'm not really seeing the problem here.

The interviewer was dumb to use a vague term like "identity". It leaves too many angles open.