Quote Originally Posted by Roeshel View Post
Nobody talks about feeling valued. Healers are by default the most valuable role in any MMORPG that has it, regardless of their actual gameplay.

Healers do need complex dps rotation to keep us entertained. Unless the content is hard, which in FFXIV it rarely is, saving the party from a wipe becomes meaningless. Figuring out what type of heal to use is learning the basics of healing. Once you've learned it, all you are left with is one nuke spell and dot.
A healer's job is primarily to heal and their toolkit is designed accordingly. A DPS' primary job is damage, hence why they get the complexe rotations and we get the vast healing repertoire with a few simple damage spell to weave in when the opprtunity presents itself. If you want complexe DPS rotation with the ability to heal and raise people on the side, try Red Mage, it's what drew me to the class initially and I loved it.

If healers get the DPS potential of ranged DPS, why would anyone play a ranged DPS ever again? They'd just be inferior to healers in every way. Healers should never get a complexe DPS rotation and I'll never understand why people want to gatekeep the healing role to the top percent of players.

If healers get this kind of potential, fights will be balanced around it and dps queue times will skyrocket because no one will want to/be able to keep up with the insane demands of the class.

If healing bores you, please just play a DPS.