Quote Originally Posted by Melorie View Post
Yeah, people come here thinking they're veryyy clever saying "WELL WE JUST NEED TO HEAL MORE!!" (let's not forget they sort of promised this in SHB and you all know how that went) as if re-doing their entire encounter design is something more reasonable to give more 2 buttons or something. Or acting like we do current content in this game all the time, and not brayflox, alexander or that trial from ARR that my friends and I don't know the name and call it "truck" because we stomp through it in roulettes. Admit already that this is a game based solely on DPS, embrace it and do something with it. Make healing kits have some synergy with it... I don't know. It doesn't matter what they do, just please for the love of the twelve stop with the 1 button spam. If they are able to turn our downtime into giving buffs or whatever it would be great, but like, they don't even need to put that amount of effort to fix it so that it's barely playable.
To be fair, it would be fairly easy for them to design future encounters that have a higher amount of damage output—thereby raising the healing requirements. The issue is…they aren’t even doing this. I’m not expecting them to go back and retune older content to have more incoming damage that has to be healed; but to, perhaps, look at future encounters and design them to have damage output that requires the use of all these new toys they keep giving healers. Them not doing this makes what I said earlier true: all these toys are now overkill.

They have done a good job giving healers plenty of tools. Just not a good job ensuring we get to use them in a way that isn’t a blatant overheal in most content. I love AST’s healing kit. It’s the only thing that keeps me playing the job since they dumbed down the card system and tacked on Divination and seals as some weak play to keep all 6 major arcana relevant. But Neutral Sect is straight up broken outside of Savage/Ultimate content. No content below Savage requires it in the slightest. And that’s disappointing.