For the new healing class...

[Seoulstar]

If only that could work. Maybe that would spare the forums of another thread complaining about healers not dpsing.

[Sidra]

Having a healer that can't add dps is a really bad idea in a game where the other healers can add a substantial amount of DPS. Any necessary soloing aside, why would anyone ever invite that job to a group? You can't keep the group any more alive than the other healers except that they would add dps and you wouldn't. It would need some absurdly powerful team dps buffs.

[ADVSS]

If only that could work. Maybe that would spare the forums of another thread complaining about healers not dpsing.

im afraid theyll never end after the "str tanks are too squishy " and "WAR is out DPS'ing me" threads. It'll never end, cause the people that started it now have to deal with the consequence of what their complaints caused. You complained that you couldnt dps because tanks had to be healed all the time, well now you have to dps because they got 2x as many hp.

[LilLemay]

realistically they could just make all the debuff moves do damage, then give them some DoTs

[platorepublic]

Maybe they should disable cleric stance in duties.

And maybe for MSQ, if you use a healer, you can automatically skip the parts that require you to dps.

[Normalizer]

Maybe they should disable cleric stance in duties.

And maybe for MSQ, if you use a healer, you can automatically skip the parts that require you to dps.

This sounds like they are going to implement Spectator Mode for duty, healer role only.

[RyuDragnier]

I have a feeling they're going to make Red Mage the new healer. Since they can use both WHM and BLM abilities in every FF game they're in, they will most likely have their own version of cleric stance. One that changes all their healing spells to attack spells, adding changing buffs to debuffs, etc. Meaning something that would give regen to an ally will do a DoT to an enemy, something that heals for a lot will become a burst spell, their largest AoE heal would become their version of Holy/Gravity/Flare, etc.

[Rennies]

Maybe they should disable cleric stance in duties.

And maybe for MSQ, if you use a healer, you can automatically skip the parts that require you to dps.

I know this is sarcasm, but if they disabled Cleric Stance in duties I would literally not play any healers in this game anymore. This game has nothing to offer for people who want a challenge with pure healing- the support options are an afterthought and the DPS spells are our primary contribution after any risk of death has been eliminated.

And I'm sure that disabling Cleric Stance would ruin queue times even more so for DPS players.

[Alistaire]

No I think he's actually not being sarcastic. He's the one that started a thread asking for the next healer to not have dps capabilities.

[Rennies]

If that isn't sarcasm, he needs a different game to play. :P