Quote Originally Posted by Ari_Calithiel View Post
Personally I see this as a bit of a selfish request, which is fine, but it will likely never happen. Astro's should be limited to a certain type of healing. And Astro's being the healer that excels are planning out healing for future damage is where they shine and it should be emphasized. There is zero reason to go back to the frustration that came from clueless astro's going nocturnal spec and causing problems for their co-healer scholar because the astro wants to be a shield healer and in turn would negate the scholar's ability to shield (they didn't stack then). Nocturnal as it is is great. The shields actually stack and provided meaningful assitance to our co-shield healer.

I agree that it is fun to choose how your heals act, but giving astros back a watered down version of scholar isn't the answer.


You make a lot of points that are interesting and points I agree with. But the two above, well I have already said my piece. We are in agreement that the changes to astro now are not okay.

Edit: had to post in 2 replies because rules are dumb
I disagree because I think the whole shield/regen healer split is incredibly dumb as premise. That and it's also a lie. If you look at SCH and SGE, they have so much free pure healing and regens that they are just straight up better than the designated "pure" healers. Unless they somehow make fights require an insane amount of healing throughput, I guess. What I'm seeing is parties just running two shield healers and not even bothering with AST/WHM regularly.

That and the whole split will look really silly if/when they decide to add a fifth healer into the mix.