Healer & Tank DPS (WoW vs FFXIV)

[RichardButte]

I just think that WoW doesn't have that much of the same problem, likely because of how their damage in raids comes out and how the healers are designed.

It's exactly this.

Because most of XIV's dungeon/raid damage is bursty, the healing classes are all primarily designed around healing bursty damage (or they at least NEED answers for it).

And on the subject of healers being samey, let's not forget that AST is essentially an amalgamation of WHM/SCH with a toggle switch to decide which one you're going to be more like, plus cards.

I mean if you aren't healing right now, as nobody needs it... And you're not getting good hit with a tank busters right now...
Then what are you doing!?

Standing around idle is not a good way to spend the groups time.

Recovering mana so you have enough of it to heal the next big damaging AoE?

I don't reject the idea that enmity/threat, defensive cooldowns, and positioning work in sort of a triad, complimenting one another. I think when you take away any one of those 3 things you make the entirety of the role less interesting. I wouldn't want to give up any of the 3.

Just in my case, taking away the necessity of enmity/threat management would be (is) the most egregious cut, which WoW did.

WoW shifted the paradigm into tanking not being as much about maintaining aggro so much as doing your rotation to put forth as much active mitigation as possible.

Every tank in WoW has loads of either self-healing, self-shielding, self-armor buffing, or evasion buffing, all of which they generate through their respective rotations.