THANK YOU for making Healers actual Healers again!

[Seoulstar]

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.

It's a good thing I already DPS. But I'm going to say I personally don't care if the healer dps or not. It's not going to kill me if they don't. Also, I wouldn't say you'd be expected. Most really don't care whether the healer does it or not and I don't recall it being written in stone that it's an expectation.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

I personally don't care if the healer dps or not. It's not going to kill me if they don't.

It IS going to kill you as there are things as enrage timer. Even without, the longer the fight goes on the higher the chances you die. Especially in Savage and EX were Healer-DPS is mandatory.

[ForteNightshade]

It's a good thing I already DPS. But I'm going to say I personally don't care if the healer dps or not. It's not going to kill me if they don't. Also, I wouldn't say you'd be expected. Most really don't care whether the healer does it or not and I don't recall it being written in stone that it's an expectation.

In a Savage setting, it is very much expected. The only reason to be somewhat hesitant to DPS aggressively is if you're new to the content. But the moment you step into anything remotely difficult (EX and up), you should be DPSing otherwise you're just lazy.

[Seoulstar]

It IS going to kill you as there are things as enrage timer. Even without, the longer the fight goes on the higher the chances you die. Especially in Savage and EX Healer-DPS is mandatory.

I was not aware that we were on the topic of EX fights and Savage. Things which the crowd that prefers to just heal tend to avoid.

[Nuna]

I was not aware that we were on the topic of EX fights and Savage. Things which the crowd that prefers to just heal tend to avoid.

Thankfully.

[Seoulstar]

Thankfully.

So we just acknowledge they avoid the hard content..what is seriously the point of this argument.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

I was not aware that we were on the topic of EX fights and Savage. Things which the crowd that prefers to just heal tend to avoid.

Even outside of those, your party will be still pissed and bosses way more dangerous in the endgame dungeons if the healer don't DPS. The best way to keep your party save is usually to kill things as quickly as possible.

[SaberMaxwell]

So we just acknowledge they avoid the hard content..what is seriously the point of this argument.

Because if healers were blanket changed to only heal, it would be universal in both softcore level content and hardcore level content.

[Seoulstar]

Even outside of those, your party will be still pissed and bosses way more dangerous in the endgame dungeons if the healer don't DPS. The best way to keep your party save is usually to kill things as quickly as possible.

If we're going to be 100% honest here. The only parties that would be pissed about that would be one of those parties. Which honestly is not the vast majority of the FFXIV community itself. While I agree it's best to kill things as quickly as possible. I'm not going to go as if my day is ruined because the healer wants to strictly heal.

Because if healers were blanket changed to only heal, it would be universal in both softcore level content and hardcore level content.

The fact remains that it's not a requirement for them to do so in softcore though. While I agree a healer should be dpsing in hardcore content. Something like a dungeon isn't a major deal if they decide they don't want to toss out damage spells. As to why that is such a difficult concept to grasp for some people bewilders me.

Anyways. This is going in a circle just like every other time I let myself get caught up in this pointless debate. I'm honestly not even going to bother anymore lol

[Starflake]

Lmao, a ton of people can't even properly heal The Vault. There ain't no way in hell SE decided it was a great idea to make fights more healing intensive. It would mean a world of pain.