Concepts from other MMOs that would be utterly anathema to FFXIV

[Shurrikhan]

I'm not sure what your point is when I simply said not to exaggerate. If you know the meaning of what she said, then what I said simply clarifies it. That you thought to try to force the issue is baffling if you think people know the meaning. If semantics doesn't matter, then let it go. But when people make it a point to complain about something, I'd rather they don't exaggerate and play with words and expect people to know what they mean.

You've essentially answered a rather common opinion in the sense of "I'd rather healing require a greater amount of my actual uptime and include more means of playflow involvement beyond merely minimizing my GCD heals cast" with "Doesn't matter; anything that heals is still technically a healer (and so your opinion is absurd)".

There are hundreds of pages of post on this exact subject, many of them using that same exact term -- "Green DPS". It's precisely because I think people know the meaning of the term that I found it disingenuous to dismiss the comment on semantics (that healers still produce some amount of HP and therefore are not, say, "what feels, effectively, like DPS with additional healing abilities" [Green DPS]).

Let me be clear then:

I would like to see additional playflow mechanics involved in my healing such that I feel I spend more of my uptime preparing deliberately for concerted interactions between my skills, ideally with a sense of gambling against expected timings (which requires some doubt or chance insofar as when damage will arrive and for that damage to be in amounts I cannot easily make up without making appropriate decisions) and deep decision-making. This is likely antithetical to XIV, however, for reasons that have already been discussed in countless prior threads.

So why do I mention it?

Because that's the point of this thread. It's something I'd like to see that would unfortunately be utterly anathema to XIV.