The idea that we need to DPS must go.

[Mesarthim]

Joke thread aside I did more dps than the ninja that was in my Akadaemia run just now. Things were dying so slowly (and they also ate almost every aoe).

Something tells me I want to dps just to make my misery in duty finder end faster. I don't think I could keep a straight face convincing myself to lull about in those kind of parties.

[KDSilver]

I don't play to promote any of the dev ideal.
I pay a service to have fun.

And doing nothing isn't fun.

End of the story.

[Mikhaill]

Joke thread aside I did more dps than the ninja that was in my Akadaemia run just now. Things were dying so slowly (and they also ate almost every aoe).

Something tells me I want to dps just to make my misery in duty finder end faster. I don't think I could keep a straight face convincing myself to lull about in those kind of parties.

NIN needs a buff tbh. It's the lowest of the DPS.
I have barely seen any this expac.
P much the new MCH.

[Mesarthim]

NIN needs a buff tbh. It's the lowest of the DPS.
I have barely seen any this expac.
P much the new MCH.

Oh I won't deny that but the ninja was playing very badly. A competent (insert anything) would out dps that particular ninja.

[BokoToloko]

While I agree that a more active healing gameplay is needed, it's the fights that should encourage it with more unavoidable damage. As long as the fights are designed so that very few GCDs (or none at all) are needed to keep the party reasonably healthy, the healers must learn to do as much DPS as possible.

And even if the fights manage to encourage a more active GCD healing, healers will still have to DPS during downtime, as it's the straightforward way to keep the rule of Always Be Casting without overhealing your party.

[Izar_Chillen]

While I agree that a more active healing gameplay is needed, it's the fights that should encourage it with more unavoidable damage. As long as the fights are designed so that very few GCDs (or none at all) are needed to keep the party reasonably healthy, the healers must learn to do as much DPS as possible.

And even if the fights manage to encourage a more active GCD healing, healers will still have to DPS during downtime, as it's the straightforward way to keep the rule of Always Be Casting without overhealing your party.

This game is designed around avoiding telegraphed damge to a point of repeated encounters grants you if your decent, the ability to avoid all of that damage , which leaves raid wides , certain uunavoidables which get healed through and are "occasional"

In order to have more active healing like you get in other mmos , in dungeons enemies rate of attack (autos) would need to be faster and or they are granted special attacks that arent telegraphed

In raids there would need to be either adds that target dpsor healers or the boss throws out debuffs galore


This cant happen


This is a community that at large complained about a unique mission called in from the cold where SQE tried to create a stressful situation to push the narritive in a stroing emotional style to tell the story - there was a meltdown and they nerfed it

We have a healer community at large that still , STILL , completely Ignore blue bar marked cleansable burns, bleeds , magicUp , defence down etc


It would cause a shitstorm that for once healers had to constantly heal like other mmos when a VAST amount of healers play the role simply to get short queue times and do nothing but spam GCDs uneccesarily once inside the duty



We would love it if healers had to actually heal to keep groups from dying (if they didnt heal all the time)


Its been waaay to long to change something so core to the community without mass exodus of players that refuse to be challenged even slightly



sorry if i sound like a ranter , i mean well and i agree with you that healers should be having to heal from damage coming at us all the time in various forms but here we are