Thread: 4.3 Thought on 3 healers

The fact that they managed to make all three of the healers at least somewhat distinct while still keeping a decent amount of parity makes me wonder how they manage to do the complete opposite with tanks. WHM is a "baby's first healer" with ultra straightforward mechanics and strong heals, but still manages to have plenty to offer to experienced players; SCH has the most interesting and (in my opinion) proactive gameplay of the three, and spends a lot less active time healing which is fairly unique; AST is a bit of an odd duck because it's mostly just borrowed mechanics, but the cards offer a unique niche and its spells are among the most visually spectacular.

It's not perfect, but if they stayed the way they are until the next expansion (where they completely butcher the job balance again) then I wouldn't be upset in the slightest.

SCH has the most demanding Healing Skill Set to me. WHM can power through anything even with bad choices and AST is over tuned to compensate for it's simplicity. To me SCH is so much more rewarding because it takes so much thought to be efficient. You can't spam Succor and think you're going to survive everything like Medica or Helios. Nothing is better than throwing out Sacred Soil 10 sec in advance so that even the most lazy DPS has time to enter the effect and catch your Deployed Adlo and Fey Convenant for the next big Boss AoE. When your cohealer is rendered useless you know it was a job well done.

Originally Posted by NobleWinter

When your cohealer is rendered useless you know it was a job well done.

Obviously fun for most SCH with whom I've been paired recently. Not so much for me. While I search for a game where healing has meaning, I'll be dps with a raise.

whm classic healer

scholar unique healer

astrologian a copy cat.

I still miss the days when sch was a god amongst men. playing a whm is such a bore. AST is interesting but doesn’t ‘wow’ you.

I wonder what content people are doing that WHM is boring them. If all you do is heal or all you do is DPS, maybe...?

SCH and AST are boring. They each have one of their two functions almost entirely off the GCD. But WHM has to balance their cast times, and indeed their relative viability (i.e., personal DPS) is predicated on doing so. This means there's always room for improvement, basically, so long as people still have more than 1 HP when they take damage.

Originally Posted by Sciwolf

I still miss the days when sch was a god amongst men.

Aside from the brief stint at SB's release, I wasn't aware this had ever stopped being a thing.

Originally Posted by Trunks

Right, well, thanks for that nugget. Not all opinions are equally valid or valuable. Reasoned ones provide the basis of most civil discussion; unreasoned ones provide the basis of most human conflict. What people proclaim to be "fun" and "boring" at least has some abstract influence on a medium which exists to bring us fun. Things which people say are "fun" can be incredibly destructive. Just ask Bambi.

Originally Posted by Trunks

SCH and AST are boring. They each have one of their two functions almost entirely off the GCD. But WHM has to balance their cast times, and indeed their relative viability (i.e., personal DPS) is predicated on doing so. This means there's always room for improvement, basically, so long as people still have more than 1 HP when they take damage.

So... your "reasoned" opinion influences my "fun" how?

"unreasoned ones provide the basis of most human conflict."
I'd say asserted ones provide the basis of most human conflict.
You might have offered a rationale, but you still asserted it as if it was "more than just an opinion", and even claimed it was "more valuable" of an opinion.

"Boring" is matter of personnal opinion.
That's useless trying to find which one is the most.

What can be boring for one can fun for someone else.
Each players have their preference.