Please make healing more worthwhile than Dps-ing

[Canadane]

If you're doing savage level content, it's about time you've learned that the quicker something dies the less damage the tank/party takes.
Yes there's a fine line between that and just not keeping people alive, but at endgame levels, healers are expected to toe it.

[Corbeau]

Making healers devote GCDs to healing is as simple as increasing the ambient raid damage in the encounter. If the "people not dying" bar requires GCDs then healers will spend GCDs (or wipe).

[Semirhage]

This raises the question: would forcing healers to spend more GCDs on healing actually make playing a healer more fun? In my opinion with current healer design it wouldn't; it's trading one shallow spammy noninteractive toolset for another. Others are free to disagree.

[Billythepancake]

This raises the question: would forcing healers to spend more GCDs on healing actually make playing a healer more fun? In my opinion with current healer design it wouldn't; it's trading one shallow spammy noninteractive toolset for another. Others are free to disagree.

Pretty much. Do you want to spam Glare or do you want to spam Cure III? If people need to constantly heal, and if that's the direction the game wants to go,then the game, and the healer kits, need to be designed for it. Healer kits as of now are not designed to constantly heal, they are designed for green DPS,whether square wants to admit it or not, that's why GCD heals are expensive, why oGCD heals are so powerful as well as being on relatively short timers, and it's also why bosses have scripted damage. Just "upping damage" would only create another problem.

It's honestly why I think the best choice is just give healers something to do when not healing, since the majority of your time is spent not healing anyway. Be it in more interesting DPS,or something along the lines of the AST card system. Square needs to accept that healers are green DPS, just like how tanks are blue DPS, and actually go off that design instead of stripping and dumbing down healers to the point they're at.

[Corbeau]

It's not about boosting encounter damage until healing is the only thing being done, it's about making GCD healing spells more than very niche tools. Anything to avoid huge chunks of a fight being slamming the same single button over and over.

Though hell, even if healers were spending almost all their GCDs on heals it'd still be more engaging because you have to balance mana efficiency against raw output as incoming damage fluctuates.

[Lodi]

It's not about boosting encounter damage until healing is the only thing being done, it's about making GCD healing spells more than very niche tools. Anything to avoid huge chunks of a fight being slamming the same single button over and over.

Though hell, even if healers were spending almost all their GCDs on heals it'd still be more engaging because you have to balance mana efficiency against raw output as incoming damage fluctuates.

They did try to give ways to optimize healing mp management, with Cure giving free Cure II and Benefic giving crit Benefic II. Too bad Cure and Benefic are basically never needed.

[Raqrie_Tohka]

I've had healers refusing to even raise, to continue dpsing. After all, it's not their fault you die to mechanics.

[Arale]

Revert healing and incoming damage to Heavensward era. Boom, I'd be happy again. If people want to DPS, they'll need accuracy and proper use of clerics. Otherwise you're going to be doing more healing, with less OGCD's.

[Stepjam]

Only the last HP matters ultimately. If your party is alive, then healers should be free to DPS. If they are dying, then someone is doing something wrong, and it won't be fixed by gimping healer dps.

[Canadane]

I've had healers refusing to even raise, to continue dpsing. After all, it's not their fault you die to mechanics.

I do this until swiftcast is ready.