Quote Originally Posted by Naunet View Post
(...)as well as adjusting healer jobs themselves so that they have a variety of tools beyond just "heal button" and "dps button". AST is a good step in the right direction, IMO, with the buff cards. Let's take it further. Give healers more support-related things to do instead of expecting them to dps. I really did not roll a healer to dps 70% of the time.
That's exactly what I said. Cards are nice, but it's still a buff each 30sec at most. And many make it each 1-3min on average since they only want Balance with a Royal Road effect. Healers lack buffs they could and would want to frequently use. Ones that are not off-global cooldown, so that they would actually compete with offensive spells and heals, and good enough to push the latter off, frequently enough to fill the time in-between heals, with only a short time, if everything goes well, left to DPS.
Off-cooldown stuff with long recast just isn't gonna be relevant in that respect.