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If I'm going to play an Evoker, it will be a healer. But there lies the problem. They already said Evoker will somehow have HoTs and time-altering effects, but all of that sounds inevitably like just another incarnation of Restoration Druid.
Back in MoP and WoD Monks felt quite unique due to their Chi mechanic and while relying on HoTs, they still were more than just Druids. But since Legion and at least with BfA, Mistweaver has become just another Restoration lookalike, working very similarly (unless you play Fistweaving). But the general approach was the same, cover your group in HoTs and that's it. Sure, Vivify works instead of Druid's Nourish, but both specs share a lot of similarities.
To make that even worse, Druids already have these skills and talents that make their HoTs shorter, stronger, extend their duration or increase their tick-rate. So basically everything that would be part of Evoker healer is already part of Druid. I really have no idea how they could separate Evoker from Druid in that regard. And sorry, a chargeable breath heal won't change that. It would just be another Vivify-situation, but instead of being casted it's channeled or whatever. And not like Monk's statue and even Tea has a breath heal already...
I mean we've gotten zero information about the class and skills, which is highly problematic. So does that mean Blizzard has barely any clue on how to develop this class? Or do they not want to show us because [...]?
How would you try to avoid Evoker healer being too similar to Druid or Monk?