Healer are no longer Healers we are DPS

It is very easy to make us be Healers. Make parties take more damage, get more debuffs that we need to Esuna, give us mechanics that make us pay more attention to the parties needs etc. DPSing is fine, but making a healers' DPS numbers so high where that is all they want to focus on to be top of charts should not be their main idea of a healer.

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Originally Posted by Scura

It is very easy to make us be Healers. Make parties take more damage, get more debuffs that we need to Esuna, give us mechanics that make us pay more attention to the parties needs etc. DPSing is fine, but making a healers' DPS numbers so high where that is all they want to focus on to be top of charts should not be their main idea of a healer.

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Adding more things to esuna or more tank busters doesn't make it more fun, it makes everything more tedious. That sort of attitude of wanting more to heal leads to overhealing and wasting mana. If you're strategic with your heals and the rest of your party is avoiding mechanics as they should, mana spent throwing a glare is a resource better spent than overhealing the tank.

If we try to balance it to make the healers do more, then the tanks won't have anything to do. I'm not sure why people are allergic to throwing a glare in their off-time. Ranged DPS don't complain about having an ability to diminish incoming damage for the party or having support abilities.

I think going full green DPS isn't the way either, and you shouldn't be trying to be a black mage who can cure, but with how the game is now you should be expected to at least help the rest of your party and provide some damage when you can in order to let the pressure off the DPS a bit during DPS checks. The game is a team game in a different way from other MMOs in that each of the roles has some ability to help everyone else. Tanks can diminish incoming damage and add DPS, DPS has abilities to support each other, raise, heal, or diminish damage, and likewise healers can DPS as well.

I think it's clear that the devs don't want to put too much pressure on one role

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Originally Posted by Imora

My argument is that I NEVER want the party topped up, I want constant damage.

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That would be fun to watch. 95% of healers wouldn't be able to keep up.

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Originally Posted by RocciaSolida

I think it's clear that the devs don't want to put too much pressure on one role

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Which is why they tend to put the pressure on everybody. *stares at Light Rampant*

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Originally Posted by Lastelli

That would be fun to watch. 95% of healers wouldn't be able to keep up.

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98 really. Lets not pretend that that extra 3 % could keep up.

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Originally Posted by FoxCh40s

98 really. Lets not pretend that that extra 3 % could keep up.

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Depends on the content, I'm confident that about 20% of the healers I get in dungeons could keep up with increased healing requirements, the other 80% however...
And the emphasis is on "in dungeons", anything more difficult would be a very different matter.

Sage gets quite a lot of shields and hots. I suspect they did that so two SGE comps would be viable considering its the go-to healer for people that are fed up with one button spam rotations.

AST does seem to get some new card management stuff, though honestly I coulnd't really tell.

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Originally Posted by FoxCh40s

98 really. Lets not pretend that that extra 3 % could keep up.

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Clearly, the worst part is that the "no dps healers" that only spam heals are the ones that let us die the most ... imagine if there was damage constantly and not once every 30 seconds :'D

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Originally Posted by Scura

Why do you continue to take away a Healers' main job...Healing?????
It has been getting worse and worse since Alexander. Why can we not focus on the job we are supposed to be doing...HEALING!!!:mad:

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We've never had fewer dps abilities than we do now and you're still complaining? Good grief. YES. You're expected to help kill things...in every game ever.