Quote Originally Posted by Hatstand View Post
I think that this post misses the point. We aren't upset because they removed our damage numbers. We're upset because they removed our damage options. If they just nerfed the skills we had I doubt there would have been nearly so much of a fuss. They can put that right without either increasing the damage being put out by parties as a whole or decreasing the damage of others.

And then there's the mess that is AST... if they don't do something about that... I don't know. It will make me lose a lot of faith in SE
This. I don't mind where SCH is right now from a DPS numbers stand point and from a pure HPS standpoint I'd say the class is in fairly good shape. What I mind is that they took the most complex healing job in the game and gutted it. For the first time ever since I switched to SCH as my main I'm /bored/ to death in content. Even just trying to weave in my dots was more engaging, to say nothing of faerie management which has become almost mindless thanks to Eos/Selene becoming invincible. I just plop her in the middle of the area and that's the last time I actually consider my faerie placement these days in fights. Where as before proper placement always had a risk/reward system that just plain felt nice to pull off correctly.

I can't comment on AST as I'm refusing to touch the class till Savage drops and we get some answers, but right now I /dread/ getting ASTs as co-healers in any group content and a look at where the class is right now only confirms the reason why.