My main dissapointment was that I had seen a post from the devs stating that they were excited to be offering many new abilities to all classes which had no precedent. I was anticipating things that, while they may have had minor overall effects, would give us a completely new concept to work into our strategies. The defensive is ALMOST a new concept, if you regard it as the view of our class only... But everything else is just an upgrade to something we have

Well, I guess you can stretch and call the chance for a DD heal to have a HoT with it "new."