THANK YOU for making Healers actual Healers again!

[Enla]

I'm going to laugh if they don't up the damage to compensate. I like the more DPS oriented meta for healers but if they actually make healing challenging and worth the high uptime then I'll be pleased with the change. If not I'm likely role switching for the expansion.

[Heliantheae]

I'm hoping for a difficulty curve around the second or third dungeon. Bardam's mobs hit pretty hard the first time and there were those patrollers roaming around that was like a pull by themselves. I'd like more of that. And I'm curious what that "Job effectiveness will vary depending on player skill" at the bottom of the tank card meant. How much DPS we do will also depend on how much damage the tank takes.

[Ariane]

That's not what pure healer means OP.

Exactly. Read some of Yoshi-P's interviews to see what he means by it.

From 2015: "Up until now, we designed scholars and white mages to be perfect partners for one another. Now, we suddenly drop Astrologian into the mix. In order to maintain the utility of both white mages and scholars, we decided to add the stances for Astrologian. In pure healing stance it can partner well with scholars, while it can switch to the barrier stance for partnering with a white mage."

https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/12...dia-Event-5-19)

A more recent quote: "When looking at this history of healing jobs. Making strong balance between three jobs it has been tough. With three its been tough, so with a 4th the balance might get even worse. Instead of doing this, we want to prioritize balancing them better this expansion so we didn’t want to add a new healer at 4.0 or 5.0. We really think we need to restructure the way healers are handled. We can’t keep this strict division between pure healer and barrier healer. Something needs to change here so we can maintain good balance. Thats the main reason we didn’t have a healer. First priority was to add a 3rd ranged, then a 4th tank while we balance the healers better."

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...8GTvPw4uI/edit

WHM and diurnal AST are the "pure healers". SCH and noct AST are the "barrier healers".
Yoshi-P not talking about damage. He's talking about how their heals work. "Pure healing" just means heals that just do straight healing (no shields).

[van_arn]

As long as you have a single button that can do damage, you'll be expected to use it during downtime by your party.

[gumas]

it just mean we now more into healing role. instead of 60% heal 40% dps, we are now going 70% heal 30% dps, at least its how i think.



the prophecy has spoken

[ForteNightshade]

Supposedly, this is a misinterpretation. JP refers to Regen healers as "Pure" healers. If we go with that, it seems more likely they are neutering shields but you'll still be expected to DPS just like we do now.

[Niqote]

Supposedly, this is a misinterpretation. JP refers to Regen healers as "Pure" healers. If we go with that, it seems more likely they are neutering shields but you'll still be expected to DPS just like we do now.

Bugger ...

[Seoulstar]

I really don't care. Whatever just ends this pointless war between people that want healers to dps and healers that prefer to just heal.

[LeonTrifang]

Every class is required to participle in DPS. Plus, how boring would it be if you just pop a few Physicks on the tank and then basically sit down till they are wounded again? No, Pure Healer refers to direct healing. If you read the creators notes and listen to his words, you’d notice this.

[ForteNightshade]

I really don't care. Whatever just ends this pointless war between people that want healers to dps and healers that prefer to just heal.

The war will never end unless encounter designs are changed to require more healing. Considering this will make healing "harder," the devs aren't going to do. Therefore, you will be expected to DPS.