Healing in FFXIV vs healing in other MMOs?

[Venjamin]

My favorite healer of all time was Bard in Perfect World. Essentially, certain spells added musical notes into a layout. (C, D, or E if I remember correctly. ) When you used 3 spells to create a chord ( think C-C-D ) you gained AOE buffs that lasted for x seconds or until you played a new chord. It added a great layer of competency and decision making to your healing, because even during times when you are facing 'down time' you are preparing your next chord or setting up a good heal that won't interrupt your chord progressions, etc.

It was wicked fun and I'm super disappointed our Bards aren't as cool. xD

[LunaFaye]

My favorite healer of all time was Bard in Perfect World. Essentially, certain spells added musical notes into a layout. (C, D, or E if I remember correctly. ) When you used 3 spells to create a chord ( think C-C-D ) you gained AOE buffs that lasted for x seconds or until you played a new chord. It added a great layer of competency and decision making to your healing, because even during times when you are facing 'down time' you are preparing your next chord or setting up a good heal that won't interrupt your chord progressions, etc.

It was wicked fun and I'm super disappointed our Bards aren't as cool. xD

Good old times and I've to agree that features like this would bring more fun to the classes, but to be honest perfect world was designed for a other player base. There you had the possibility to play the way you wanted, 2 archers in a team didn't have to play the same songs or do the same rotations etc. People here can't even play foe or swift song, let's not talk about their ability of dealing any decent dmg, but that's a complete different story lol.

Edit: still think 5.0 sin was the best thing (solo play) ever or playing healers in Nirvana, archers or psychics in pvp so much fun. Now I wanna go back and play that again