Thread: Healers in 5.0

I do not like the changes , so I hanging up my Whitemage staff .

So instead of thinking omg we need to buff WHM, they just nerfed everything to the ground and made them all WHM clones. Such a shame, this will probably be the first expansion I don't play a healer. (ARR WHM, HW AST, SB SCH)

I remember leveling/doing hunts with SCH was pretty painful in 4.0, but I suffered through it since instances were/are fun. I'm more of an offhealer/hybrid minded player.. so uh, I guess I'm dropping SCH for another job this expansion. I've been a SCH main since I started in ARR. If it turns out to be not so bad, I might level it as my third or so job. I've never been very happy with AST when leveling, so the new healer DPS skills aren't very appealing to me.

Not looking forward to queues, but oh well. Too bad we can't do a mixed trust/player system..

Even as someone who thinks healers have way too much time to DPS in this game, even I know just simply gutting their DPS kits is a lazy, slapdash fix. AST's DPS rotation was already pushing it when it came to levels of engagement previously...now every healer is like this, and with some fun parts of their healer kits pruned to boot? Yikes. Heres hoping theres a serious battle content overhaul to come with this that encourages more healing, because otherwise...yikes.

I have to be honest I am quite disappointed about AST card change. I am not those chasing every single drop of DPS speed run ppl, I do not fish for balance and always found a way to use all my card.
However, I am not giving up on AST in 5.0, it is always the lore and story got me into FF, I will just hope for some change in the future and utilise what we have now

Originally Posted by SturmChurro

The only healer I play is White Mage, and I will continue to play that.

I play it quite a bit, and people didn't like it in SB.

Don't tell me you are trying to say that the whm damage rotation was complex before any changes. The entire fight I'm doing stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone, stone - with a couple ocassional aeros inbetween.

as someone, who plays all healers about the same amount, whm has always been my easy/safe to go pick. which doesn‘t mean it was bad or boring to me.
but the general situation with scholar(simplified dps) and astro(card system changed) is a dealbreaker for me. whm on the other side looks interesting to me.

Is it bad that I'm optimistic and excited about these changes?
As a WHM main, the healers in 5.0 look similar enough to where I'm enthusiastic to try them out, but different enough that they look like good alternatives if I'm getting bored of WHM. I don't feel that way about our current healers.
That being said, I am sorry for those who feel gutted by these changes. Just because I like them doesn't necessarily mean they're good for everyone.