Quote Originally Posted by Thoosa View Post
I’ve no idea, but there has to be some technical reason because the “don’t want to put pressure on healers” argument is resolved by ogcd heals.

In Stormblood (I think?) WHM had aero 3 and SCH had shadowflare and something else and they took them away, can’t remember the reasons why.
Streamlining and oversimplification. Much the reason aspects of other jobs have been removed throughout the years. Not because having a second DoT or Shadowflare upset the balance and broke the healers relative to the content they were in.

For DoTs specifically, they stated that a lot of DoT removal was due to how many DoTs can be applied at once to a target, and too many DoTs resulted in jobs like BRD and SMN losing damage because the DoTs didn’t register. Since both jobs had abilities that relied on DoT application (Sidewinder for BRD, and Fester for SMN), this was extremely detrimental to them. However, neither of those aspects exist anymore—BRD DoTs don’t interact with any aspect of the job as of EW; Sidewinder is just a flat potency. And SMN doesn’t even have DoTs at this point, so it is very much possible to re-add a DoT or two back to the healers without running into this limitation. And it wouldn’t upset the balance.