Making healers more interesting via buffs

[SieyaM]

I would definitely love more of a support element added to the healers, but that kind of thing is hard to balance and the FFXIV dev team is all about DPS numbers. I could see WHM getting more of the buff kinds of skills and SCH getting more a the debuff kinds of skills that effected mobs, but I really don't know what else to add to AST aside from the cards they already have.

[Risvertasashi]

I would definitely love more of a support element added to the healers, but that kind of thing is hard to balance and the FFXIV dev team is all about DPS numbers. I could see WHM getting more of the buff kinds of skills and SCH getting more a the debuff kinds of skills that effected mobs, but I really don't know what else to add to AST aside from the cards they already have.

The problem is... this is more true than you know. Or rather, the OP knows.

We've been having this discussion for literally years.

This is what got us lillies 1.0.

The dev team is stone-wall adamant that white mage should not have party buffs. It is only years later that we got them to give WHM good DPS to make up for the lack of buffs.

I don't mean to discourage this discussion. Yes, it would be nice if there was more 'support' things to do, or if we simply had reason to use even a slightly larger fraction of our healing kit in regular content. But from a pragmatic standpoint, it is extremely difficult to get the dev team on board with these kinds of suggestions.