Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
Healers have lost a lot of things from the transition into Shadowbringers, but I think we get too caught up on the smaller things that really didn't matter. Protect was not a tool that added substance to healer gameplay. The most you really did with it was remember to reapply it on a raised party member, but the idea of a 30 minute buff that's designed to always exist on the party may as well not exist at all.
You're speaking your own opinions as if they're objective truths and acting like you know what should matter to other people. Would you suggest that, as a 'set-and-forget' ability, Eos/Selene should be deleted despite how much people love her and replaced with an automatic SCH regen pulse? It'd be 99% identical apart from the aesthetic and the single button press, so you'd be on board with it, right?

I think we're largely fond of the old healers because they had meaningful gameplay loops. They had more DPS tools, more mitigation, more utility, and that's what we miss. Things like Protect and old Cleric Stance may have been there too, but they're not what made healing fun, and they're not what we're ultimately longing for.
The person you're responding to literally just told you why they liked Protect and it was none of the reasons you gave.