Suggestion as to how to get people to become healers.

[Ama_Hamada]

My whm is 50, i played it back in 2.0 and holy spam is a ridiculous aspect. The reason it should be higher is so that it obviously cannot be spammed without zeroing out your MP. There is no reason for a healer to be able to spam their highest dmg AOE spell and retain alot of MP. The lower your MP cost, the more you will be expected to DPS. The more Healer will be forced to participate into a DPS clock. The more... The more... The more... Do you see where this is going? Your own mentality is the reason you are all becoming DPS with healing spells.

Healers should not be DPSing so much in this game. MP management should be an actual thing. If anything MP management was one of the things FFXI did a great job on. You could literally make or break your MP pools with how well you strategized your MP pool.

I'm still of the opinion that DPS spells on healer should cost alot more mp, especially holy and other classes AOE equivalent. Think BLM fire aoe spell costs but maybe a little less. Single target spells should use 10% or more MP, especially stone III. DoT spells should be very low cause those are perfect for downtimes healing.

Another problem IMHO is that there is too many mechanics in this game that are simply dodge and win. There is not enough unavoidables that dish out damage forcing a healer to heal in this game. There could even be stages of avoidance, a spot where you take 100% dmg, 75% dmg, 50% dmg similar to meteors that scale depending how far away you are but will always hit you.

I really think though, that dps spells should cost alot more mp cause this will not only bring more skill into play but more strategy cause a healer has to decide whether or not DPSing is going to make or break their MP pool and cause a wipe. Other people in the party will probably stop blasting healers as much for not DPSing for anything other than DoTs.

Also: Get rid of clerics stance, there's no need to have to switch to a dps stance when casting 10 dps spells is going to zero out your MP pool. This lets a healer time manage their spare MP and more freely toss out a DPS spell or DoTs when they feel confident their MP can spare it.

again, 10/10
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