Healer dps is unfairly boring

[althenawhm]

Oh gods please no. Healing is bad enough as it is, we don't need to start gutting the kit.

Healing kit is going to get hit next expansion anyway, since there are not enough DPS skills to cull for the new skills.

[SweetestLily]

It's unfair in my opinion to people who main healers, how they have to go through solo content. What if they simplified the healing and made their dps a little more fun and engaging so they won't get bored out of their mind when going through solo content and will perhaps also have a much better time in instances since there you also dps more than heal and amount of dps healers put out is of pretty significant importance in high end content. My 2 cents, what do you think?

They're not going to do this because it would be a direct contradiction to what Yoshi P himself has been telling the playerbase. That he wants healers to focus more on healing and that dps isn't mandatory but optional. Not saying I agree with this sentiment, but I doubt he's going to backtrack on his word.

[Crushnight]

They're not going to do this because it would be a direct contradiction to what Yoshi P himself has been telling the playerbase. That he wants healers to focus more on healing and that dps isn't mandatory but optional. Not saying I agree with this sentiment, but I doubt he's going to backtrack on his word.

Then he either needs to force better encounter design around all the healing tools that have started making the gcd heals redundant or back track on his word for the health of the healer role.

[monk-dps]

How anyone finds healing in this game stressful, outside of maybe ultimate, is beyond me. You spend 90% of your time dpsing anyway and when you do need to heal you stop dpsing for just a second, use an oGCD, and go back to dpsing. Sometimes if you somehow run out of OGCDS you'll use a GCD. Unless your tank has glass bones and paper skin, or your the kind of healer that has to kiss away any booboo and cant let the tank miss even 10hp, you will be spending the vast majority of your time dpsing as a healer so why shouldnt they have more to do besides spam 1?

To be fair... people fuck up everything in this game. You can have a quest that only has you walk for 2 mins and you'll still get people who will cry that is too hard and mess it up.

[Reyna_Balmore]

How anyone finds healing in this game stressful, outside of maybe ultimate, is beyond me. You spend 90% of your time dpsing anyway and when you do need to heal you stop dpsing for just a second, use an oGCD, and go back to dpsing. Sometimes if you somehow run out of OGCDS you'll use a GCD. Unless your tank has glass bones and paper skin, or your the kind of healer that has to kiss away any booboo and cant let the tank miss even 10hp, you will be spending the vast majority of your time dpsing as a healer so why shouldnt they have more to do besides spam 1?

Agreed wholeheartedly with this

[SweetestLily]

Then he either needs to force better encounter design around all the healing tools that have started making the gcd heals redundant or back track on his word for the health of the healer role.

I'm in full agreement here. He says one thing, but the way that encounters are designed encourages a completely opposite playstyle. On the other hand you'll have people crying that the fights "too hard" if they up the healing required.

[MuseTraveller]

Healing is only stressful when you don't use your tool kit right. Spamming cure 1/cure2 and their equivalents in later content is indeed stressful but you have so much more to keep everyone healed which leaves you to dps ... which is 1 skill, 1 dot, 1 aoe ... and WHM's blood lily skill. It will be nice to get a bit more again at least on SCH cause that has always been the more DPS-y job.

[tikiwiki]

It's unfair in my opinion to people who main healers, how they have to go through solo content. What if they simplified the healing and made their dps a little more fun and engaging so they won't get bored out of their mind when going through solo content and will perhaps also have a much better time in instances since there you also dps more than heal and amount of dps healers put out is of pretty significant importance in high end content. My 2 cents, what do you think?

we could also just have one healer with things like more complicated dps have different classes in the same role appeal to different niches instead of all being the same.

[MitsukiKimura]

How anyone finds healing in this game stressful, outside of maybe ultimate, is beyond me. You spend 90% of your time dpsing anyway and when you do need to heal you stop dpsing for just a second, use an oGCD, and go back to dpsing. Sometimes if you somehow run out of OGCDS you'll use a GCD. Unless your tank has glass bones and paper skin, or your the kind of healer that has to kiss away any booboo and cant let the tank miss even 10hp, you will be spending the vast majority of your time dpsing as a healer so why shouldnt they have more to do besides spam 1?

Literally this. I used to do nothing but DPS and use my OGCD's as an AST when it was needed so much that I actually got screwed on my MP for casting Malefic too much even when I had lucid and Lightspeed off cool down each time. I hated it.

[Malmstrom]

To be fair... people fuck up everything in this game. You can have a quest that only has you walk for 2 mins and you'll still get people who will cry that is too hard and mess it up.

Run or RP walk? If I have to RP walk for two minutes I'm tapping out.