Thread: Request: Ability to re-assign class levels after 1.20

Originally Posted by Duuude007

The original design for THM was clear in the job description, (i.e. master of destruction, moreso than even the disciples of War). It just wasnt implemented as intended, (it was overpowered as healer & in survivability) and took a long time to be fully rebalanced, due to other, higher priority fixes. Guess what? It is now almost fully rebalanced to reflect that original job decription.

Yeah I don't really get how people thought that a class who's only healing abilities were a "regen" over straight up "cure" (a white mage ability...) was somehow going to be the main healer. It didn't have any of the abilities that are normally given to white mage, and the only reason the THM was a better healer was because of cone AoE vs. CNJ's donut AoE.

I guess I just don't see how people thought that SE intended for THM to be the main healer based on its spell pool. It didn't have the buffs, it didn't have the cures, and it didn't have the -na spells. All it had was cone AoE and Sacrifice - which was just an easily exploitable combo.

'S kinda why I don't buy it when people claim that they thought that THM would be main healer. You'd have to be blind to look at the two spell lists and say "well THM is CLEARLY the white mage here". A more reasonable explanation is that people leveled THM because its cone AoE and Sacrifice made it more desired in parties at the time, and now they feel burned because they spent all of that time leveling what the player base considered a better healer, over what actually was supposed to be the healing class.