Quote Originally Posted by seekified View Post
That's not the point, the point is that arcanists (and, by extension) scholars are very DPS-y by nature and thus it's stranger to hear an arcanist-based healer be so averse to DPSing.

As a scholar, you have 28 base skills. 9 of these are directly DPS-related. Why anyone would choose to ignore a third of their job's skillset is beyond me.
Because the shield healer in wow and eq2 don't *have* to either ATM(lol Atonement nerf).

And all healers in all games get attack spells so they don't have to rely on being joined at the hip to someone else to do things.