Why healing is broken and terrible, and how to fix it...

[RichardButte]

That is a lack of experience issue, sorry.

When the DPS perform immaculately for the first two bosses so I feel comfortable DPSing, then they suddenly eat every other AoE on the last boss, what "experience" could've helped there?

I read the situation for what it appeared to be and acted accordingly, trying to get the boss down ASAP because I thought I was with a wholly competent group due to how well they played.

It doesn't happen often, but it's still annoying when it does happen, and when it DOESN'T happen, it's equally annoying because I rolled a healer but spend nearly all my time dealing damage instead.

Also for the other person you are replying to, no it is not broken, it is just a different style.

Here's the thing...

If RDM was introduced to the game as a DPS, yet was more effective as a healer than as a DPS (and as a result were asked to spend 80% of their time healing instead of dealing damage), RDMs would scream bloody murder, and rightfully so. The DPS forums would be on FIRE with threads saying, "This class says it's a DPS! Why am I a healer?!"

Meanwhile, healers have been doing more DPS than healing since at least 2.0, and no one bats an eyelash.

It'd be one thing if there was a class that healed THROUGH DPS (like two of WoW's healers do) and leveling the class that did that was a choice a player made, but all three healing classes run into the same issue: there's just not much healing that needs to be done (especially when running in a static where people will typically not get hit).

If you don't want to call it "broken", okay, but there are less kind ways of putting it, like how calling these classes "healers" is a bald-faced lie when they spend far more time dealing damage than healing.

If you're a player like me who enjoys playing a healer because you like actual healing, you're SoL in XIV, and I'm not sure why more people aren't at least saying, "Yeah, I it'd be nice to feel like I was doing more in my actual PRIMARY role..."

So OP wants healing to be done like WoW? Well, go play WoW?

I want healing in FFXIV to be as fun and engaging as DPSing in FFXIV.

And no, that's not an unreasonable request.

[hydralus]

I want healing in FFXIV to be as fun and engaging as DPSing in FFXIV.

And no, that's not an unreasonable request.

It kinda is, when 'fun' and 'engaging' is just based off what you feel and not some measurable metric. The idea of just needing to 'heal more than you DPS' sounds like an asinine metric for what would satisfy you on how a role should play out.

And as suggested, if WoW does it the way you like, maybe go play that and don't try to change a game that does it different. Variety is nice.