healers need a serious overhaul

[Absurdity]

It just occurred to me that the situation here is a perfect example of prisoner's dilemma. Applied to healers in FFXIV:

• If one defects (keeps on doing damage) and the other co-operates (heals the raidwide), the defector will get a great parse and the other will get a bad one
• If both co-operate (share the healing), both will get a mediocre parse
• If both defect (ignore the raidwide), the raid will wipe

Not really, healing is supposed to be a shared responsibility. If you communicate with your partner you can easily cover gaps where they do not have the required oGCDs for incoming damage and they can cover the gaps for you, resulting in a good parse for both of them.

This only becomes an issue when you don't have any tools available to cover the damage and your partner has but they simply refuse to use them. In those cases however the logs can easily tell you if one of the healers just didn't do their job.


The logs basically tell you every minute detail of the fight, from dps to the exact second at which the party took damage, which healer covered said damage and what abilities they used to do so.
If for example you check the logs and see that the SCH only used Recitation twice in the entire 8-10 minute fight then you know there's something seriously wrong. But if all you do is look at dps and call it a day then you might as well not look at logs at all.