Quote Originally Posted by hiz View Post
I am failing to understand. I apologize for my low level of English proficiency, but I find it difficult to parse your intentions when you employ words like "flow", "clunky" and "awkward" without really saying what exactly you are referring to. In our original post (and a few subsequent posts of my own) I feel we concretely laid out what exactly was our problem with this new iteration of SD. May I request you do the same?
You have to consider the fact that a good majority of the playerbase don't understand the game's systems in the same way that good players do. Heck the poster I replied to before cleared the entire savage tier but clearly didn't know the proper opener. Some people straight up don't understand how to weave, or don't know to target other players during their cast, bad keybinds, not using targetting hotkeys, not using lightspeed etc. All of the above add to the "clunkiness". A lot of people also seem to think for some reason that you had to try so hard for a 6% divination when really 5% is enough and can be accomplished very easily by just chucking out all your cards fast (which isn't that hard, you have can literally do it by single weaving in 3 GCDs).

Call me elitist, but I don't think this was an issue, people just needed to get good, stop complaining, look up resources and practice (you know, like how other non healer jobs need to build their rotation into muscle memory). But nevertheless there still stands issues with technical accessibility -

1. Controller players. I don't think I need to say much more about this.
2. Players with high latency. I used to have bad ping which affected my opener because cards came up with a delay which made it harder to react to, as well as being unable to double weave. This adds more to the "clunkiness" as you're stuck playing solitaire for a longer time if you can't even double weave redraw and play/MA in the same window.

I understand that SE wants to cater to all players (even if PC players will always have an advantage), which is why they probably thought this change was necessary. Do I agree? Probably not; the other changes also overtuned AST to the point of being the both easiest and most overpowered healer right now.