Thread: Happy Healer in 5.0 thread

Originally Posted by Almostward

Whm got lucky with these changes since lilies actully do something, but Sch had all their attacks basicly removed.

Excuse me, where did WHM get lucky? First of, we lost half our kit in Stormblood, so all that talk about AST and SCH loosing so much while WHM didn't is a faux argument since WHM just, you know. Lost their stuff 2 years earlier. It also means that we didn't even HAVE anything you could strip of us anymore to begin with. And, cool, Lilies are slightly better than before. But not by much, since ALL three of the skills tied to that system are GCD skills, and GCD skills aren't really something you want to cast as a healer. Also, two of them are healing spells we literally had since forever, just wrapped in a different, more sparkly package. The last one is a DPS loss in most situations unless you were forced to GCD heal earlier on, which really shouldn't happen. Our 80 skill is a freaking joke as well; oh, cool, we get a healing potency buff with some mitigation attached? Wait, didn't we have Sacred Seal in the beginning, then lost that skill to the damn job skill system, and NOW we are handed back the exact same skill, with longer CD and some mitigation that the other healers had for AGES now attached to it? And we also lost one DoT, plus got nothing the job actually needed this patch. Btw, if you want to nit-pick, we also lost Repose, again to the stupid job skill system.

Yeah, WHM got INCREDIBLY lucky. It's almost as if none of its issues (like clipping, or actual raid utility that makes it competitive with the other healers) got fixed.

PS:
I also would like to mention that Medica II, which some say got buffed, actually just got resetted to its original state in 2.X, too, as PI got resetted to its original, horrible 4.0 state (though I personally welcome the change to Medica II, felt it was a nerf back then). Doesn't mean it's not a buff per sé, of course, but I think it's worth mentioning that this is not the first time the skill looked like this, either. And to me, it's hardly something to applaud the devs for since in my eyes, it should have never been changed in the first place.