Quote Originally Posted by olibri1 View Post
If you look at the big picture, it's hard to see what other choice they had to get here. If you want to move to a new system where people don't get 1-shot anymore, then how else do you make the game continue to be interesting for healers? However, IMO, they made the move too quickly. Healing is by far the most challenging aspect of the game right now.
Well, I'm always in favor of moving away from dedicated healers in favor of highly synergistic classes, which would have been the ideal situation and seems to be the road we are heading down with things like Word of Glory and Discipline Priests, but it seems like we went from OOM-is-a-bit-of-an-issue to no-one-OOMs because OOMing isn't fun, but that made everything too easy, so now OOMs, OOMs for everyone! Really, it would appear to be a text book example of pendulum nerfing.

But then, I've advocated doing away with the holy trinity for years, largely because it seems intent on pigeonholing some poor suckers in to babysitting health bars, which is no where near as fun as beating the tar out of something.