Quote Originally Posted by pinkbubblegum View Post
I mean, it's there if you need it haha. Ideally ogcd heals would cover everything but people mess up, prog PFs notably. Sometimes it's a Pinax fire stack and only 2 people left alive in your stack. For the sake of prog just to see more mechs might as well shield xD
Generally speaking, your GCD healing is pretty useless both in the fact that it's a DPS loss and that they're just not very good. That said, they do serve as a very limited safety net and do have very niche situations. During P3S, for example, I'll stand in the middle after the first wave of adds fall during the add phase and hardcast prognosis. There's nothing to attack there, and raidwide damaging is being pumped out, so I can avoid spending more important resources that will be needed very shortly. So I don't think these are bad to have in concept.

The issue I take with them is that they're painted as the bread and butter of healing when they're really the opposite, and are often used as a crutch by casual healers despite it actively being a worse way to even keep HP up because they're not particularly strong and cost a lot of MP.

I think they just need to be stronger. Make them work harder so that players that are using them as a crutch actively can brute force their way through healing, which makes the role easier at face-value, but since they remain DPS losses, skilled healers still won't rely on them so long as their healing isn't too overtuned.