More engaging DPS for healers

I would much rather have a focus on how I can help my party members increase their output of DPS then be expected to have X DPS as a healer myself,
I'd love to be able to cast Haste as a White mage.

The way it is heading now ALL classes are DPS with a side duty of Enmity holding or healing; and that sounds terribly boring.

It does, but that is the path people seem to want.

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Originally Posted by Pyroxene

As a tank who has died numerous times because the healer was too usy spamming Holy, Id like to see the implementation of either attack spells that offer a slight healing to nearby party members or healing spells that add a damage to nearby monsters.

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You know, that is less a problem with dps spells, but the person just being a bad healer. I don't think there's really anyone reasonable on the dps side who would say dps only as much as the healing side demands healing only. We know our job is to heal first, dps is something we do when there isn't a demand for healing, and here in this thread we want the kit we use during that time to be more engaging than spamming a filler spell.

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Originally Posted by Niqote

I would much rather have a focus on how I can help my party members increase their output of DPS then be expected to have X DPS as a healer myself,
I'd love to be able to cast Haste as a White mage.

The way it is heading now ALL classes are DPS with a side duty of Enmity holding or healing; and that sounds terribly boring.

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I can understand that, which is why my idea is to try to make dps procs and mechanics that eventually if not immediately feed back into our healing kit.

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Originally Posted by Niqote

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Hmm....I believe I mentioned it before, but thinking about it...maybe haste wouldn't be a good idea. For example, when I am playing Samurai, I have a specific rotation in mind and having the GCD decreased by too much could actually throw off my timing. Not saying I disagree with the idea of haste, and I'm sure I would get used to having a haste on me. I know BLM's would appreciate having a fast, or near instantaneous cast time with the ability.

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Originally Posted by Niqote

I would much rather have a focus on how I can help my party members increase their output of DPS then be expected to have X DPS as a healer myself,
I'd love to be able to cast Haste as a White mage.

The way it is heading now ALL classes are DPS with a side duty of Enmity holding or healing; and that sounds terribly boring.

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This!

I would love to see healers play a more support role, then hybrid DPS role. I want my spells to help the DPS do more DPS. Right now we have 3 DPS roles, one can heal and DPS, the other can tank and DPS and the pure DPS. I want to see healers moved away from DPS and more support role or make DPS players do something else aswell.

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Originally Posted by Niqote

I would much rather have a focus on how I can help my party members increase their output of DPS then be expected to have X DPS as a healer myself,
I'd love to be able to cast Haste as a White mage.

The way it is heading now ALL classes are DPS with a side duty of Enmity holding or healing; and that sounds terribly boring.

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This is 100% my solution of preference too. Having additional incentives to spam Malefic / Gravity is not making it more interesting. There is no need to put any thoughts into it. Buffing party members however - that's on an entire different level. It's not particularily hard - but it sure does feel more rewarding, at least for me, which is why I love my cards above all else. I don't even care much about my personal DPS being low to compensate for that.

It still stuns me that SE didn’t have the foresight to properly take AST all the way down this road. Let them spend their GCDs optimising cards rather than DPSing, it’d make a *lot* of people happy, open up the more passive playstyle so many desire and help stop the job being little more than a copy paste of whm with a clunky cards thrown on top.

Yoshida pls sort your healer designer out =(

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Originally Posted by Sebazy

It still stuns me that SE didn’t have the foresight to properly take AST all the way down this road. Let them spend their GCDs optimising cards rather than DPSing, it’d make a *lot* of people happy, open up the more passive playstyle so many desire and help stop the job being little more than a copy paste of whm with a clunky cards thrown on top.

Yoshida pls sort your healer designer out =(

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I think they fear that making the 3 healers different from each other, will make it so people will favour taking certain healers over others. I do agree with you though, I wish they went full support with AST.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

This!

I would love to see healers play a more support role, then hybrid DPS role. I want my spells to help the DPS do more DPS. Right now we have 3 DPS roles, one can heal and DPS, the other can tank and DPS and the pure DPS. I want to see healers moved away from DPS and more support role or make DPS players do something else aswell.

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theres a 4th role, which is pure DPS that has utility abilities for the party, while the other pure DPS classes are left with little to no utility