As a healer, is it my job to DPS? A new perspective.

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They could simply greatly reduce our healing output.
I don't necessarly want everyone to be under a permanent threat of being bursted for the sake of forcing both healer to heal.
You could keep the dmg as it and greatly reduce healer's healing potential forcing them to effectively heal more than 5sec every minute.


I agree that Healing shouldn't be the most alienating and stressful job. No job should be, but weither it would require a proper rework or not, I believe that most healer who started the game, those casual healer as you pointed, probably rolled healer to heal, not to be some proto-dps. Sure, some might love the whole dps thing... but at the core, if you role a healer to dps 90% of a fight there's obviously something wrong with your job selection.

Seriously, do you know someone clueless about the current dpsheal meta saying after buying the game and going through the available jobs "dude, White mage sounds like a good job to dps, I'll roll WHM"

I know some people in my FC hate healing because of that, there7s this pressure of doing as much as dps AND keep people alive (and make up for their mistake)

I selected Astro as primary job because I enjoy healing. I don't mind shooting dot during 4men that I greatly overgear. I don't mind shooting dot or dps during some smoother phases, but I do mind being told I MUST dps and keep my DoTs otherwise the group lacks dps... seriously, just reverse the situation, assuming all DPS role would have a way to heal, how would most player choosing the dps role feel about having to heal half of the a fight duration?

Hopefully they will do something for Stormblood as it is not the first time this kind of topic emerges, even on french and japanese forum the discussion can be wild. (dunno about german I can't read german)