Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
That said, if the issue against going towards more GCD healing is merely how "Slow" the gameplay would feel without oGCDs... Then the problem isn't even that big.

You don't need to remove oGCD's to promote GCD healing. You merely need to shift the power of oGCD vs GCD healing.

At the moment, oGCD reign supreme because they're MASSIVE heals that make GCD heals plain not necessary. It's not just Benediction that is doing ridiculous burst healing, but all oGCD heals.
One of the more common complaints WHMs voiced has been how slow WHM feels. And as far as ogcd weaving, yes, ogcds do supplement what DPS and tanks do and not dominate their potential like healing ogcds do now, but my point is still rather that DPS and tanks get lots of things to juggle, and if the ogcd healing abilities are nerfed to the point that they're just kind of whatever, (which I think will happen), then healing becomes this slow as molasses, static thing.

More and dynamic damage patterns would definitely help though, because any time we can't align ogcds to the mechanics, those direct heals come to play.