Please make healing more worthwhile than Dps-ing

[Semirhage]

I once played an awful free-to-play MMO (which I won't name drop) that had a class mechanic for the "more healing"-focused healer. Every time you cast any spell, regardless of type (heal, damage, buff), it would give you a 5 second buff that increased your passive MP regeneration by 10%. It stacked up to 10 times, giving you a maximum of doubled MP recovery. Now, with MP economy being what it is in this game, obviously that specific reward wouldn't be nearly as attractive. But imagine. A passive ability, that doesn't interfere with anything else you're doing, that provides a meaningful reward for riding your GCD whether you're healing, damaging, or passing out buffs that leaves a bit of wiggle room and rewards you for playing the game correctly. What a world that would be.

[Shurrikhan]

I once played an awful free-to-play MMO (which I won't name drop) that had a class mechanic for the "more healing"-focused healer. Every time you cast any spell, regardless of type (heal, damage, buff), it would give you a 5 second buff that increased your passive MP regeneration by 10%. It stacked up to 10 times, giving you a maximum of doubled MP recovery. Now, with MP economy being what it is in this game, obviously that specific reward wouldn't be nearly as attractive. But imagine. A passive ability, that doesn't interfere with anything else you're doing, that provides a meaningful reward for riding your GCD whether you're healing, damaging, or passing out buffs that leaves a bit of wiggle room and rewards you for playing the game correctly. What a world that would be.

Edit: (Misread.)

Doesn't that just indicate too high a base cost on (filler) spells if you need a mechanic just to be able to continue casting consistently?

[Samsta]

How is wasteful healing, just to recover MP spent on wasteful healing, "playing the game correctly"?

I don't think you read the post with care.

[Semirhage]

How is wasteful healing, just to recover MP spent on wasteful healing, "playing the game correctly"?

Any spell. Not healing spells. Any. A reward for keeping your casts consistently rolling, which *is* playing the game correctly.

[Shurrikhan]

Any spell. Not healing spells. Any. A reward for keeping your casts consistently rolling, which *is* playing the game correctly.

My mistake. I did indeed misread.

Though I fail to see how it influences gameplay in any way. "Always Be Casting" is a rule anyone but a "pure-healer" tends to have down from level 10 or so. So you reward people for doing the obvious by letting them do more of the obvious? The exact same result would be achieved with reduced MP costs relative to the base regen rate (especially on "filler" or "spammed" spells), so that at no point players would be obliged to stop casting.

That you would ever have to stop casting without having deliberately sacrificed mana for a niche nuke spell or the like indicates a specific desired gameplay loop. I don't understand why they would go out of their way to make that loop only to then undo it through another mechanic.