A summary of healer issues

[Videra]

Honestly a lot of this is just whining though. Astro and scholar feel really great to play in savage, and if I liked the idea behind WHM's optimization being about movement and lily use, I'd probably like that healer too...

I hated old astro cards, I thought getting useless cards was completely miserable, and even the whole, "Use what you have for what you currently need" idea was just...not fun. The new cards are great, because they are always a welcome sight to see. A personal trick attack for your buff window is amazing, and even beyond that, 8 percent damage for 15s is nothing to sneeze at.

SCH has amazing tools that can be used as well, Fey Union, Seraph, Blessing, Whispering dawn, so many things that can be utilized where you need to plan out your aetherflow.

AST and SCH felt better to play in SB and HW when they had more non-healing options everywhere in the game. Not just in Savage and ultimate. I don't know why people get hung up on this idea of 'Well, it feels good in savage, so who cares!'. Healers are drop-dead boring everywhere else in the game, and it's a matter of fact that they used to not be boring. What was wrong with what we had before, exactly? Why would anyone prefer the absolute trashfire that we have now over the sweet skill ceiling of HW or the more interactive than ShB healers of Stormblood?