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    Player RyuDragnier's Avatar
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    Oct 2013
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    New Gridania
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    Hayk Farsight
    World
    Exodus
    Main Class
    Dark Knight Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Dearche View Post
    When 90% of our heals are just AOE heals to cover for manditory raid-wide damage, it makes me wonder why we even bother with this farce. Spot healing is way more interesting, even if it's to keep that DPS who keeps standing in the red alive. At least it's more than just hitting one button at a regular interval like our DPS rotation.
    Sounds like we need a return of Alexander style raids, where nobody was safe, and anybody could suddenly get a random prey or mechanic on them that healers had to quickly heal them through lest they die.

    Example of a possible future mechanic, a single target Akh Morn style multi hit blast that stays on the random target, cannot be "splash mitigated" by others standing on them, and can only really be survived by healers quickly healing them through the hits.
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    Dearche's Avatar
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    Dearche Claudia
    World
    Faerie
    Main Class
    Sage Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
    Sounds like we need a return of Alexander style raids, where nobody was safe, and anybody could suddenly get a random prey or mechanic on them that healers had to quickly heal them through lest they die.

    Example of a possible future mechanic, a single target Akh Morn style multi hit blast that stays on the random target, cannot be "splash mitigated" by others standing on them, and can only really be survived by healers quickly healing them through the hits.
    To be honest, I do much prefer this sort of stuff.

    Single target damage, maybe with a transferable tether or pillars that only show up one or two at a time but quite often, would make healing much more interesting. It would also make us use our GCD heals as well, even SCH. If this is combined with a better MP management system, like if the basic heal GCD gives us MP rather than relying on a regenerating CD or two, we would actually be playing as real healers doing rapid triage near constantly, not some AOE heal bot that spends most of our time hitting one damage spell.
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