Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
It would be cool to see a new healer. Doubly so if it was the ‘poster child job’ for that expansion. But I can’t imagine they would because it’d completely tip the balance one way or the other Their design right now is pretty much predicated on there being four healers (two pure / two shield, two dps focused / two rDPS focused)

Like, either there more ‘pure healers’ than ‘shield healers’ or vice-versa, or it’s an AST Sect type hybrid that switches between the two, which is always going to fall into the issue of the hybrid either being strong enough to invalidate the ‘pure’ versions or so weak that they’re not worth taking.

I think before they added a new healer they’d first need to readjust the current healers to be more individuals jobs with their own strengths and weaknesses, as opposed to current design where we have mostly identical counterpart healers split into categories (pure/shield mainly).
The split is a corner they backed themselves into for no good reason. If it even can be called a split at this point considering how many regens both "shield" healers have. Especially SGE has regens on pretty much everything, making double shield comps vastly superior in pretty much every situation.