Healer DPS is too boring for how little healing is needed in the game

[Zolvolt]

No new healer means I really want to take a look at things that I think would shake up healer gameplay in an enjoyable way.

Right now Healing in the majority of content is low. REALLY low. Damage isn't scary, and even when a tank pulls an entire dungeon I find myself spamming gravity and holy and especially on single target boss fights the "rotation" for healer dps is way too simple half of the healer gameplay.

There is a little variation between the three healers, usually with how aoe works, but the rotation is generally Dot 1 > dot 2 > spam spell.

Healers spend most of their time doing dot 1 > dot 2 > spam spell. (and only one dot as Ast) Can we get more added to this? Ast has cards so their dps rotation being simple makes sense. Sch is still playing with fairy/aetherflow and they have the most complicated dps with things like Bane, Energy Drain, and Miasma 2, but Whitemage being as simple as it is for having the least things to do really screams "add more to my dps tool kit".

Either way though please make healer dps more engaging since its half of our gameplay experience.

[Hustensaft]

The problem is that healer spend 80% of their time DPSing... not the boring DPS rotation.

[Zolvolt]

If they just up damage I'm going to start saying that spamming benefic I and II is not exciting enough though.

[Canadane]

Bring back old Clerics Stance.

[BiffWellington]

I'm gonna have to disagree. Healer DPS is simple because they also have other, more important things to do. A healer who deals damage in a style like the Bard, with so many buttons to press and effects to keep refreshed at all times, would develop tunnel vision too easily and end up dying or letting other people die just from having too much to keep track of. You shouldn't have to be a superstar player to succeed at healing.

[Hustensaft]

I'm gonna have to disagree. Healer DPS is simple because they also have other, more important things to do. A healer who deals damage in a style like the Bard, with so many buttons to press and effects to keep refreshed at all times, would develop tunnel vision too easily and end up dying or letting other people die just from having too much to keep track of. You shouldn't have to be a superstar player to succeed at healing.

Current healing gameplay would work perfectly with a full DPS rotation... as healing is mostly done by off GCD abilities. Whatever cast time healing that is needed can easily be compensated by adding a few more off GCD abilities for healing.

[Zolvolt]

Bring back old Clerics Stance.

pls no ; ;

[LashL]

Real talk im with you, im so bored of spending 85% of a fight pressing malefic while tossing in an aoe for the usual boss does X aoe every min or so. All we do is trade off gcd heals with our other healing for everything else anyway.

[Kalise]

I'm gonna have to disagree. Healer DPS is simple because they also have other, more important things to do. A healer who deals damage in a style like the Bard, with so many buttons to press and effects to keep refreshed at all times, would develop tunnel vision too easily and end up dying or letting other people die just from having too much to keep track of. You shouldn't have to be a superstar player to succeed at healing.

> Implying that things can only be a binary "Current Healer" 1 button spamfest or "Bard-esk" juggle 7 oGCD's (With CD refresh procs), maintaining 2 DoTs and a buff while also looking out for other procs to use on yet another skill.



As things currently stand, Healers would be able to work with like 90% of DPS classes rotations. Given that so much healing is done via oGCD's.

So it's only oGCD heavy DPS rotations that would be an issue due to conflicting with heals. Of course, the side effect of having to swap between targeting enemies for DPS and targeting allies for heals would also be a factor.

Though, to be fair, they could try and make damage actually notable and make actually healing with GCD's interesting.

Like, why couldn't we have a healer that uses combos for progressively stronger heals?

Why can't we have a HoT healer that gets bonus healing potency when direct healing targets with their HoT on (Similar to how BRD's Sidewinder works with their DoTs)?

Why can't we have a shield healer who can detonate their shields to do direct healing?

Etc.

More involved healing would reduce the need to worry about having interesting DPS combos by reducing the amount of time spent flinging Stones/Malefic's/Broils.

[NocturniaUzuki]

I'd personally be okay with a very slight increase in complexity. But as a healer, I don't want to start being judged on my ability to play as a DPS. I mean, obviously we're already judged on our DPS, and that's fine. But then, our DPS output is not linked to knowing how to use a complex DPS rotation. It's about knowing how to HEAL effectively and get more uptime with our basic DPS rotation.

As for people who are bored, I would suggest looking at more minute ways of increasing your DPS. What I love about healing is the simplicity of the DPS. I'm a crap DPS player, but even I can do fair DPS on healer because I know what I'm doing when it comes to healing. Being able to focus on other stuff also means I can really get into positional efficiency. Which is something 99% of players don't do. In fact, I don't even see this done by high-tier players in world-first videos. So needless to say, while I respect their abilities, I'm not one of those people who treats them like gods whose every action is unimpeachable.

The amount of opportunity lost through ignoring micropositioning is likely more than what is lost from things like WHM spell clipping. And yet people complain about that instead of learning how to play a low-movement class.