Making Duties Fit for Healers

[Absurdity]

The GCD healing toolkits are just as boring and spammy as the damage kits are. Shifting fight design back toward spamming more healing spells doesn't make healers less boring. It just makes them boring in a different way. What happens when you have to heal so much your oGCDs are on cooldown? Cure 2. Cure 2. Cure 2. Cure 2. Cure 2.

One way to solve this would be to make actual healing combos where your basic heal (Cure 1&2, Medica 1&2) branches off into different heals that are either more powerful or provide other beneficial effects.

But yes, just leaving GCD heals as they are and then simply forcing people to spam them isn't exactly any more engaging than spamming Glare/Broil/Malefic.

[Dearche]

One way to solve this would be to make actual healing combos where your basic heal (Cure 1&2, Medica 1&2) branches off into different heals that are either more powerful or provide other beneficial effects.

The annoying thing about this is that we kinda used to have this sort of thing. Cure has a chance of proccing Free Cure, and Benefic has a chance of proccing Enhanced Benefic 2. I remembered a time when this was part of the core healer gameplay, as these procs were very important for the sake of maintaining your MP pool.

It's really unfortunate that the potency of the basic heal spells are so low that it's not worth fishing for the procs over just doing Cure 2/Benefic 2 instead, on top of the lack of worrying about your MP anymore.