Encounter Design needs to be overhauled at a fundamental level

[Barraind]

You forgot "dont get knocked off the platform lololol" on 90% of fights.

Because we fight almost everything on magical floating space platforms now, for reasons.


In terms of how you can work healers, its not all that hard.

Move towards more overall healing % being on GCD's at a lower power, then the OCD's are chock full of modifiers for those.

Use this cooldown to make your next heal add a regen component.
Use this cooldown to lower the cost of your next heal.
Use this cooldown to make your next heal crit.
Use this cooldown to make your next heal instant cast.
Use this cooldown to increase the potency of your next heal
Use this cooldown to deal damage equal to a cast of your GCD damage spell on your targets target.
and so on, based on the class.

Toss in a majority of their damage from OCD abilities with short to moderate cooldowns (bonus points if you code them like sympathetic spells in other games, where if cast on an enemy it hits that target, and if cast on an ally, hits their target) designed to be regularly weaved in, moving decisions towards "what am i weaving between casts next" and the generic stone/ruin used as a GCD filler spell when leveling or not having to heal.