Is dpsing and a healer becoming the standard norm!

[Kaurie]

However, the use of current does suggest that it was something else at one point. People do always seem to claim that this is a new trend in FFXIV, when it always has been.

Edit: May have been different in 1.0, but ever since I joined, it has been a thing.

From their context, I took it less that it was implied that it was different before, but more that there is a possibility for it to be different.

EDIT: To elaborate, they used other games to compare - where the 'different before' was from other games, or the possibility for it to be different was using other games as a comparison.

[Canadane]

If the game only provided you with DPS moves as a healer for solo fights and not for dungeons, they'd go to the extremes that they did with PvP and completely block out cleric stance.

Doesn't stop me.

[MikaKrystel]

^^^

Good job on cropping out the GC scores, admitting you'd lost that match by DPSing as a healer without cleric stance would be pretty embarassing

Also, how did everyone do sub-50,000 damage in Seal Rock of all places?

[Canadane]

Good job on cropping out the GC scores, admitting you'd lost that match by DPSing as a healer without cleric stance would be pretty embarassing

Also, how did everyone do sub-50,000 damage in Seal Rock of all places?

Oh yes, we lost spectacularly. It wasn't much of a secret when I'm with the adders.
There are times I've won, I just happen to have had that one screenshot.

[sorahu]

Another question: why does SE nerf down dps, then put up such high dps checks in raid content?

[AeraLure]

A healer dpsing has been a thing for as long as I have played. No changes and yet this topic keeps coming up. If anything it altered a little in that if you play as a WHM you're usually expected to solo heal in 8-person play. That wasn't always the case. I used to dps a lot there but now it's far riskier for me to do that.

[TheUltimateSeph]

Sephirot EX is similar; the healing requirements are still quite low, but I think the mechanics of the fight are a bit better. In phase 2, while those Aura debuffs are out all the way up until earth shakers, there is no damage, so it's full on DPS mode for the entire group. However, the time in between those moments has rather consistent damage going out. It still only needs one healer, but the concept is there, at least.

in phase 3 you mean? Also the healing requirements are pretty damn heavy everywhere else in the fight, especially phase 1 and then after storm of words comes up in phase 3.

[Kaurie]

in phase 3 you mean? Also the healing requirements are pretty damn heavy everywhere else in the fight, especially phase 1 and then after storm of words comes up in phase 3.

The thing with that fight, is the damage is incredibly predictable, so it's easy to time your DPS in at appropriate points.

[TheUltimateSeph]

The thing with that fight, is the damage is incredibly predictable, so it's easy to time your DPS in at appropriate points.

There are also no dps checks until the 3rd phase so if I do bother to dps at all in phase 1 it's an aero here or there, maybe a couple of stone 3s if I'm feeling lucky. Other then that I wait for phase 3 to really start trying with dps now.

Edit I guess there's a small one in phase 2 but the dps themselves are more then capable of handling the adds and you actually have to be careful not to kill them too fast either so yeah I just hold off till phase 3.

[Waliel]

I also think healing should be made harder, but in a different way. By nerfing heal potencies. Trippling damage would cause damage to be spiky and therefore it would have to be made predictable so the tank doesn't die to RNG. I prefer damage being mostly smooth with a bit of randomness and occasional tank busters. Nerfing our heals would keep damage patterns the same but would require us to heal more often. That way our dps wouldn't need nerfed either (= ruined for soloing). It would be naturally lowered because there wouldn't be as much time for it.

That would work too. I think WoW took that approach with Draenor, but I didn't enjoy it that much. I felt like my heals did nothing. Some combination of both could be best. At least for my tastes.

Who says that I, as a healer or a tank, am not doing my job while I'm dealing damage? I heal when I have to as a healer, and I keep the hate and keep mitigating damage on tank while also dealing damage.

I don't know. Does someone say that to you?