Shadowbringers Healer Role: Complaints, Feedback, and Suggestions

[Deceptus]

It's hard to put exact numbers on this tbh. The difference between a BiS team with perfect heal and mitigation mapping is worlds apart from a fresh team on prog. Top teams can heal e12s with 10 or less GCD heals between them the entire fight where the average player on prog would need to healbot fairly hard. It's nearly impossible to reach a level of incoming damage where everyone would need to heal 60-80%. Encounters need to be designed around the average player at min ilv during progression so even though we could certainly bump damage up more than we have now, I'd expect we'd still see 75% downtime at least when fully optimized even if the average player is at 20-40%.

There can be and needs to be a middle ground though.

SPOILERS BELOW!!!

Take the new dungeon, Paglth'an. The final boss, Lunar Bahamut hits like a freaking wet noodle. His Akh Mourn attack? Can be healed with a single OGCD. I checked the damage and each hit does a measly 7K damage. 21K total. That's less than 25% of your total HP. No one in that dungeon goes in there with less than 100K HP so there is zero functional reason why those 3 blasts can't do 50K each or more. Tank busters SHOULD chunk tanks for 75% of their HP. Boss Auto Attacks SHOULD hurt.

That is just a few examples but if SE wants healers to actually heal this NEEDS to happen.

Otherwise, we're back spamming a single filler DPS spell for 80% of the fight.