Helare shortage in PF: what would bring you back?

It's mostly well known that PF savage has a healer shortage currently. Whether this is because of the pure/barrier split, or an influx of new players not wanting to heal, or just healers not enjoying healing anymore I'd like to pose a question.

What would bring you back to healing and if you don't currently heal, what would make you want to heal?

Having an actual spell rotation for starters, or any rotational reason to not just press 1 1 1 1 1 1. Having your downtime between heals be literally spamming a filler and refreshing a DOT every 30s is numbing.

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

Having an actual spell rotation for starters, or any rotational reason to not just press 1 1 1 1 1 1. Having your downtime between heals be literally spamming a filler and refreshing a DOT every 30s is numbing.

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Having actually different healing styles would also help, instead of thinking hard casting either shields or hots is a sufficent stand-in for job identity.

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Originally Posted by T-Owl

Having actually different healing styles would also help, instead of thinking hard casting either shields or hots is a sufficent stand-in for job identity.

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Agreed. Like why not have every healer play to the actual strengths or unique abilities to their jobs?

For WHM work around the Lily system, which they are fairly ok at now, but wouldn't mind some improvement.
For SCH, make things work around Deployment Tactics more and make Deployment more available. (also for the love of god do something with the Faerie Gauge)
For AST... honestly I don't know, other than Earthly Star this job is basically an OGCD slinging White Mage.
For SGE, should have really made more utility made around Kardion, like spreading Kardion for a limited time, different effects depending on what attack spell, etc.

tanks not blaming me when they die to a DoT on a buster they didn't mit

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

Having an actual spell rotation for starters, or any rotational reason to not just press 1 1 1 1 1 1. Having your downtime between heals be literally spamming a filler and refreshing a DOT every 30s is numbing.

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And old AST cards, I'd play AST again for that.

Fixing the entire role.

Maybe finally acknowledge the entire role is a Gordian knot of terrible design that has been held up by slyphies and job aesthetics for nigh on 2 expansions now

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Maybe finally acknowledge the entire role is a Gordian knot of terrible design that has been held up by slyphies and job aesthetics for nigh on 2 expansions now

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Also taking inspiration from what WoW does. Same with Tanks. There is no denial that no matter its flaws, WoW at least cares about making Tanks and Healers interesting and unique from each other.

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Originally Posted by T-Owl

Also taking inspiration from what WoW does. Same with Tanks. There is no denial that no matter its flaws, WoW at least cares about making Tanks and Healers interesting and unique from each other.

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Excuse me how dare you suggest the flawless sanctity of FFXIV be ruined by dirty WOW ideas, don’t you know that game is dead and all the community problems in 14 are entirely caused by ex WOW people even when they have both sides of the opinion /s