Daffodil-Let me rephrase it then, the crossbow is balanced
This is just wrong. Something that heals the same as CRIT HEALS point blank in a single second is not balanced. I don't know what you're smoking.
Even if the express heals got nerfed needles have been obsolete for so long nobody would really go back to it. They'd have to do exactly what they did to old Crossbow: buff it to an insane level so everyone uses that instead of the then-common needles.