DW guys, AST is still the highest APM healer, at a neckbreaking... 4 weaves in burst!

SGE has one
SCH has two bc there's no shot energy drain survives this dogshit healer design philosophy
WHM has two

This isn't even about AST anymore. Who is going to play healer now? Who actually thought healer was too hard to play that is now going to suddenly pick it up? Are they gonna raid? People wanted healing to be more interesting, less boring. But instead we get another 2 years of simple, unengaging gameplay on the role. Adding a single follow up skill to our 2min burst button is not a replacement for engaging gameplay. It's so lazy.

We have a critical healer shortage as it is. PFs take forever to fill, healers are basically always on demand in static recruitment posts. Anyone who enjoys hw/sb or shb/ew doesn't want this. If anything we'd just get whm players moving over for the aesthetic bc that's the only thing that remains. I'm gonna be playing dps bc this role is just done for. AST was the last beacon of hope I had for it, but all people could do is complain. Anyone who asked for this, anyone who enjoys this, I better see you in PF, I'd better see you with savage/ulti clears bc you demanded high end gameplay be as braindead as the casual gameplay and you got what you wanted. Couldn't handle a job with a real skill ceiling and now the skill floor is a skill basement.

I hope they reconsider these changes, and I hope they seriously assess what healer players actually want. Bc this game is not hard to play, casuals can make it through anything just spamming benefic 1 and never thinking. Why did the job need to be brought down to their level? I refuse to believe square enix actually has healer players on their team if this is what we've got.