Quote Originally Posted by Satarn View Post
Oh totally, but go back to what Yoshi P has said back before SHB about reworking the healers for 5.0 and how they "had to" give SCH more direct heals(again), because they'd supposedly "struggled", while SB SCH was already an ogcd healing powerhouse that barely used shields at all. I'm not myself saying that shields can't be good for solo healing(when done properly of course) - just that SE is apparently convinced of that.

Really the biggest misconception is whatever the devs themselves believe about how healing works in this game.
Sadly this is what worries me.

Like I want to be hopeful that the distinction they've made means they try to go back to this old approach that worked and included my main draw to SCH.

Yet this distinction is nothing new...it just hasn't existed in design for years, just Devs think it does.