Thread: Happy Healer in 5.0 thread

I have tried to keep my judgments on the healer changes to a minimum because I haven't had a chance to play any of them yet. As a Healer I 100% understand why healers want to heal, but this is not WoW, there is not enough damage output to warrant Healers to only heal all the time. Looking at the changes they've made, I will definitely say I'm a little concerned. They have essentially changed what makes each healer unique and homogenized them all to be "fill in healer slot" jobs. I understand wanting to make it so that all the healers are viable in all content... but by nerfing the hell out of them and making them all essentially the same job with different animations is not the way to do it. Ast and Sch were fine the way they wer, they had a sense of identity and were vastly different. All they needed to do was give Whm more utility instead of force feeding PURE HEAL down it's throat and it would have been fine. They have stripped any sense of Time Mage away from Ast and now it is a Whm with cards... Sch has 1 fairy now that's sole purpose is to push out heals while Sch is, you guessed it, healing. Whm now has even more heals than ever before, because not having enough healing power was it's problem this whole time apparently. I'm trying really hard not to be to judgmental, but this is seriously disheartening. I haven't played the new Ast yet but I already miss my Fortune Telling Time Mage.