Quote Originally Posted by Rhysati View Post
FFS...Healers don't WANT to DPS. That's why they made a healer! The last thing I want to do when I roll a healing class in any game is to be DPSing all the time. If I wanted that I would have made a DPS class.

Sadly, FFXIV may have finally pushed me out of wanting to be a healer. It simply isn't fun anymore. Hitting a single button over and over to do our astounding DPS you seem to think we should do for some reason is NOT fun. I am a main healer in every MMO I touch, until now. I don't see myself working on a healer in this expansion. Nor do I plan to tank despite that being my secondary role for the life of this game and every other MMO.

FFXIV did the one thing I never thought an MMO could do. It pushed me out of Healing and Tanking(what I love to do) and I'm now a DPS main. Why? Because DPS feel more fun to play than the tanks or healers in FFXIV(And I'm saying that as someone who has been tanking/healing for over two decades of MMOs now.
Best fights are when shit goes south and I have to actually utilize my entire toolkit to bring the party back. First run of Pand4 the other day oh lord that was fun when 6/8 died and I brought them back one by one slowly, tank used tank LB3 to handle a stack just as I was about to reach for it but I got everyone back and I was just smiling about how fun that was for. Instead of glareglareglarediaglareglaretetraglareglarebene. I was hoping for some damage this expansion since they keep pushing the "healers should be healing more" narrative but it ain't gonna happen. And when I run dungeons with a decent tank I am basically useless as a healer.
We need more damage, make both tanks and healers sweat and make dps stop taking vulns while dpsing because they can actually survive it anyway.