A summary of healer issues

[ty_taurus]

One of the things that made SCH interesting in comparison to WHM back then, was the fact that SCH had access to mitigation in the form of Virus, Eye for an Eye and Sacred Soil, tools only they had. Scholars didn't need to heal as much because they could reduce the incoming damage Tanks recieved by weakening the enemy strategically. That gave Scholar a distinct gameplay where they would focus on enemies more so than White Mages. They were the perfect Co-healer, complimenting WHM's extensive and potent healing kit with strong and unique utility. AST came and upset that balance and since then Healer design has been continuously been homogenized.

This is true (though Sacred Soil was considered a trap in most situations since it was objectively the worst aetherflow action). I was just talking about the healing actions, but I would also fight for healers getting back their emphasis on damage mitigation and crowd control elements as that created a greater need to focus on other things than just healing and DPS.