SE FINALLY ANSWERED THE HEALERS COMMUNITY LONG ANSWERED QUESTION

[Saefinn]

Is it though? I don't think timer tracking and more button press can mean forgiving. Perhaps when we comapre them mathmetically, older iteration of healers might really be more forgiving. However, that does not mean its more forgiving on player skills.

I guess one problem is that I don't really see how it was that much more difficult. I don't think we've had a complex or complicated DPS. This is because it's never been a rotation in a traditional sense, you just go out what you could when you could, I think the real 'challenge' came with Cleric Stance more than anything and they removed that but it was a risk/reward mechanic they've since removed.

Because I don't think

Adloquium -> Bio -> Bio II -> Lustrate -> Miasma -> Whispering Dawn -> Bane -> Shadowflare -> Virus -> Ruin -> Ruin
Regen -> Aero -> Aero II -> Cure II -> Aero III -> Medica II -> Assize -> Stone III/Holy -> Stone III/Holy -> Stone III/Holy

Is that much more complicated to pull off than:

Adloquium -> Biolysis -> Broil -> Lustrate -> Broil -> Whispering Dawn -> Broil -> Broil -> Broil -> Broil -> Broil
Regen -> Dia -> Assize -> Cure II -> Glare/Holy -> Medica II -> Glare/Holy -> Glare/Holy -> Glare/Holy -> Glare/Holy

When you've memorised the order you're going to do your DPS spells in, then it's a case of doing them in between heals. Then the only other thing you need to keep an eye on is your DoTs, which you're already doing with Biolysis/Dia/Combust.

There was no imperative to get off a DPS rotation as quickly as you can like in a DPS job and it was pretty lower pressure and a "use them if you can" kind of deal just as it is now because your healing took priority and you wouldn't lose out on missing a combo or a cooldown (or wasting a cooldown), and not casting a Broil instead of a heal is still a DPS loss just as getting a DoT off later is a DPS loss, but only for the damage those heals took away.