Endwalker Sch Question

[Acece]

Be nice if they did something like Disc Priest in WoW, where you put a buff on players and a portion of damage you do turns to healing

I still believe that whm would be the only healer that could get away with it. The other healers already has a gimmick going them already (ast cards or sch fairy.) Whm on the other hand doesn't really have a gimmick per say so it would be nice on them.

Unfortunately very unlikely. It could be a very fun design for a healer but it would give that healer a massive advantage. Healer optimization generally boils down to reducing all unnecessary healing to an absolute minimum and replacing it with more dps. If you have a healer that, by design, is able to do both healing and dps at the same time and doesn't have to trade one for the other then they will quickly become an absolute must-have.

Doesn't Ast dps and heal at the same time with no damage loss because of their 1.5s cast times and massive amounts of oGcd's.

[Absurdity]

Doesn't Ast dps and heal at the same time with no damage loss because of their 1.5s cast times and massive amounts of oGcd's.

Maybe I should've explained it better. AST is already an issue because it is the healer that is the least affected by having to heal. To the point where you almost want an AST just because they can cover most of the healing with no losses, allowing the other healer to dps more.

AST spells however still only do one or the other, I'm gonna ignore Earthly Star in this case because it is still exclusively planned as a healing tool, the damage is negligible outside of dungeon aoe.

Now imagine if you had a healer whose dps spells healed a target for 30% of the damage dealt, with each cast or DoT tick.

Did healers use to have varied and robust DPS rotations or is the community conveniently forgetting/omitting stuff again just to complain?

Healers never had a rotation but they atleast had some options.

But what also needs to be kept in mind is that healers in older expansions actually had to heal more and had less free oGCD healing options.

Right now you have the issue of healer dps options being reduced to mostly spamming a single button while also having lower healing requirements and more tools to instantly deal with that little required healing, leading to even less time spent healing and more time spent spamming that single ability.