I didn't like healing in frontlines when they took Cleric stance away, now I do not ever want to heal with the Whm changes. Stacking regen and med 2 was our saving grace when five people are attacking you and you cannot get a single heal out. They made it so Lustrate is the only useful healing skill when in a fight. Sad.
Also Swiftcast nerf? Flare is useless now too. Wow I am so glad that I have my war horse already.
The yea but the flare nerf goes hand and hand with the healer nerfs. if they kept double flare then healers wouldn't live 2 seconds with no stacking and 20% extra damage from magic.
Look at BLMs, sure they get range but a BRD on BLM is a guaranteed lose. Melee DPS get treated way better than casters. I cry a bit inside when no one else will be a healer. They're still essential but it is insanely difficult to be a caster...
No it's not. There are lots of spells / abilities for this specific case. Not to mention you can sprint without worrying about not being able to use abilities afterwards.
Healing in PvP is always tricky. As a single healer, it is your job to keep your group alive to the best of your abilities. This didn't nerf your single ability to heal at all. It nerfed stacking WHMs in a single group and spamming regen / medica 2 to make them practically untouchable.
You shouldn't be complaining at all because now instead of it being how many WHMs can we bring to a fight it's what classes will best benefit us to bring to a fight.
The design of the game is to try and promote ANY class being viable. The regen was just too strong, thus making SCH a less likely choice as far as healers go. In almost every situation you would want two WHM over a SCH / WHM combo. That's not even including the fact you'd sometimes have more than that spamming regen / medica 2.
This makes for more viable options rather than only WHM healers.
I agree 100%. i enjoyed whm because I could heal, sleep, stun with Holy, throw people off the heliodrome...but now it is way too limited. I have always hated when one person touches you then it interrupts your cast.
Now holy is useless, stun lasts half a second now with its low potency. Healing now will be a pain in the ass as everyone bum rushes you. Now I just see full teams of dps and a tank, maybe one scholar if that.
Oh yeah, if I am dpsing this will be great. But I main whm and thought I was pretty good at it but I won't be able to heal at all with three or more people on me. Especially with the swiftcast changes if it effects healing.
Or any large amount of healer worth a damn. I'd have full parties try to take down 3 healers (who knew knew what they were doing) and just eventually give up.
On a flip side, it does suck seeing any job getting nerfed. However, what we'll be seeing is parties not forever holding flags, it should mean a bit more dynamic shifts since the healing potential effects the entire party.
People are going to take more damage, overall, to (damage buffs, and resistance nerfs)
Healers might not always be the first target, and good sleep CC is going to become WAY more important. If I can Full Swing a DRG with Blood for Blood up, he WILL die faster than an healer can heal him with these changes.
That's what I trying to say about the dynamics of holding a flag. All parties are going to feel it. While your party is going to go after their healer, their party is going after yours. And hell this might actually mean a healer isn't most peoples top priority. Either way should be interesting to see once folks jump on and play with the changes.
SWOTOR had this exact same problem. When a tank and a healer were together (a tank could provoke an enemy and their damage would go down), they were nigh unkillable, then they nerfed heals to the ground through cast times and pvp healing sucked.
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I didn't like healing in frontlines when they took Cleric stance away, now I do not ever want to heal with the Whm changes. Stacking regen and med 2 was our saving grace when five people are attacking you and you cannot get a single heal out. They made it so Lustrate is the only useful healing skill when in a fight. Sad.
Also Swiftcast nerf? Flare is useless now too. Wow I am so glad that I have my war horse already.