A summary of healer issues

[ASkellington]

2. The healer toolkit is a backlog of abilities designed to address different boss mechanics introduced during each expansion.

Ok. I'll bite.

In Shb and EW as an AST I gained (healing abilities/augments only):

Celestial Interestion
+1 charge of Essential Dignity
Horoscope
Neutral Sect
Exaltation
+1 charge of CI
Macrocosmos

Now charges of CI and ED I do not need at all outside of W2W pulls or mess ups. Which, if I didn't have them, I'd dip into GCDs breaking up the monotony of Malefic spam.
Macrocosmos and Horoscope I do not need when Earthly Star, Collective Unconciousness and Celestial Opposition can easily cover raid wides and I have ASPECTED HELIOS as a back up along with Helios.
Exaltation is a better CI and I would rather CI be changed to something else or removed and it take its place because Exalt fits AST better thematically.

Neutral Sect was ok when we still had Noct. We don't have it any more and I'll die on the hill the reason they thought it was ok to remove it instead of properly balance AST with it is because of its existence.

The point is I can 100% heal just fine without these tools. Their excuse of "addressing mechanics" kinda falls flat. I can 100% address boss mechanics without these new tools. Its just harder to do so and takes extra thought which, HEY, IS WHAT WE WANT!

[Deceptus]

Ok. I'll bite.

In Shb and EW as an AST I gained (healing abilities/augments only):

Celestial Interestion
+1 charge of Essential Dignity
Horoscope
Neutral Sect
Exaltation
+1 charge of CI
Macrocosmos

Now charges of CI and ED I do not need at all outside of W2W pulls or mess ups. Which, if I didn't have them, I'd dip into GCDs breaking up the monotony of Malefic spam.
Macrocosmos and Horoscope I do not need when Earthly Star, Collective Unconciousness and Celestial Opposition can easily cover raid wides and I have ASPECTED HELIOS as a back up along with Helios.
Exaltation is a better CI and I would rather CI be changed to something else or removed and it take its place because Exalt fits AST better thematically.

Neutral Sect was ok when we still had Noct. We don't have it any more and I'll die on the hill the reason they thought it was ok to remove it instead of properly balance AST with it is because of its existence.

The point is I can 100% heal just fine without these tools. Their excuse of "addressing mechanics" kinda falls flat. I can 100% address boss mechanics without these new tools. Its just harder to do so and takes extra thought which, HEY, IS WHAT WE WANT!

Or as a WHM, Asylum has such a short CD that it can be used every single pull, same with Divine Benison

When was the last time you actually used Liturgy / Temperance / Aquaveil in a dungeon? Hell the only reason I use Afflatus is between pulls to build up misery stacks

Same with SCH.

Fey union is pretty pointless, Seraph is too.

[AFuzzyMu11in]

Or as a WHM, Asylum has such a short CD that it can be used every single pull, same with Divine Benison

When was the last time you actually used Liturgy / Temperance / Aquaveil in a dungeon? Hell the only reason I use Afflatus is between pulls to build up misery stacks

Same with SCH.

Fey union is pretty pointless, Seraph is too.

Fey union is actually amazing so is seraph both can be weaved with AOW, and fey union lets your tank soak up all the hate while u have to worry less about healing and can focus on dps to clear trash. This is just a bad take on sch.

[flowerfairy]

Fey union is actually amazing so is seraph both can be weaved with AOW, and fey union lets your tank soak up all the hate while u have to worry less about healing and can focus on dps to clear trash. This is just a bad take on sch.

Every heal can be weaved with AOW. Fey Union is really clunky. Seraph is meh, just another AoE heal.

But I think the point of that comment was that Fey Union and Seraph are barely needed in dungeons at all. Whispering Dawn + Sacred Soil and Recitation Excog if the tank ran out of mits covers up about any damage in W2W pulls.

[Deceptus]

Every heal can be weaved with AOW. Fey Union is really clunky. Seraph is meh, just another AoE heal.

But I think the point of that comment was that Fey Union and Seraph are barely needed in dungeons at all. Whispering Dawn + Sacred Soil and Recitation Excog if the tank ran out of mits covers up about any damage in W2W pulls.

This person gets it.