Quote Originally Posted by Atheling View Post
Lol you can't say Orion's minstrel is definitely there and then say that the main healing playstyle for many minstrels which came from those changes has been removed. Please. I'm sure the yellow line is great for you personally, you do run some interesting ideas for builds. Hopefully you'll be around to guide people through them so they can regain some measure of engagement with healing via the hybrid options which are now available.
What I mean by "still there" is that the mechanics underpinning the class are the same, and the trait trees correspond to roughly the same areas. The problem is that the 4Y/3B playstyle was probably one of the most hybrid playstyles in the whole game. What I see is Orions minstrel put into a trait tree system. A system which currently serves that 4Y/3B playstyle poorly. I think in 10-20 levels time (or if they remove the 2pt restriction) when you can hit the yellow cap and get relatively deep into the blue you will see the playstyle reemerge. The playstyle by and large still exists (hitting the yellow 3 anthem capstone, then spending in blue), but it has just become hugely less effective. (I do acknowledge it has not passed unscathed - your down from 5 to 3 anthems)

Compare that to the gutting and overhaul of the core mechanics that happened with RoI, and I think these changes are well within the Orion paradigm.