All Healers (Attack Spells), what are peoples thoughts ?

[BigMac]

Hello all, with the current patch one of my hopes for healers was a more interesting DPS rotation or some synergy between our DPS and Healing skills. But unfortunately StormBlood went in the opposite direction.

I have had this "discussion" with friends a few times over the last few days and I am usually told well healer get to heal more now not DPS so what does it matter, healing is the job.

To which my reply is well a Tanks job is to Tank not to dps but they at least have some combo skills in there attack rotation that provide enmity or DOTs and the combos give increased potency, by their logic should a tank not have 1 attack for single target with a enmity bonus and an AOE variant as all they need to do is hold hate.

At least it makes leveling , solo and dungeons more interesting I would think.

Combine this with the other issues healers are having atm and I have just lost all enthusiasm to play.

I have played since 1.0 and I picked Scholar since day one ARR as I thought it was an awesome job in FFXI, I loved the style and feel of the job as well as the story behind the class. But currently I trying to find another job to play and will try to level Scholar in PVP as the abilities in there seem to be at least more fun to use.

I refuse to spam Broil for another expansion.