Would Discipline Priest Mechanics work in FFXIV?

[FoxyAreku]

because DF is a thing...and in a 8 man DF you can get 2 tanks 3 melees and 2 "melee healers" ....and a lonely black mageeee relegated to the backstaaageee

SE could force more ranged into a melee healer setup ? yeah but queues are bad already for dps , forcing melees dps to wait even more because there is a melee healer , when all healers work withn ranged ....is a bad idea...

Balance and class creation should never, ever take duty finder into mind.

This game is, and always should be, balanced around 8 man preformed parties, except in the case where they make difficult 4 man content, but they haven't done that yet so eh.

Disc is doing pretty poorly in Legion ATM due to the changes they made to Power Word:Shield and stuff. They're struggling at getting Atonement on enough people quickly enough and doing enough burst DPS to heal them to full. Compared to SCH's insane toolkit of ETactics Succor, WDawn and Indom a Disc-type healer wouldn't be able to compete unless they copied over some aspects of Holy healing, as well. (Pugs were dropping Mythic 5-mans if they got a Disc as a healer who wouldn't swap to Holy; it was that bad.)

I can't say I'm a fan of tying a class's sole form of healing into how much DPS they can do. It either means their DPS is too strong or their healing suffers. They'd be great "off-healers" in an 8-man but if the devs ever come out with any 4-mans that aren't a drooling faceroll a disc-type healer would start to show some struggle.

Everyone keeps talking about Legion, I was talking about Pandaria's disc priest, where you didn't have to place atonement on people and your DPS just automatically healed the closest targets, and you also still had flash heal, greater heal, prayer, etc.

Pandaria WoW was the epitome of WoW gameplay imo and I wish they would go back to that, but that's off topic.