Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Liam_Harper]

Well possibly because the players always seem to say: "You are forbidden to press any key that doesn't do damage. If you dare to use a gcd heal you are a terrible healer who should quit the game."

No, this is the anxiety based interpretation players get when they read posts about GCD heal dps loss or optimization and panic that they can't play that way and everyone will think they're bad. They tend to lash out defensively to defend their playstyle.

GCD heals are absolutely fine. Ideally however, you use them when the healing is actually needed and you've exhausted all your free resources. I say "ideally" because it's also fine to GCD heal when it wasn't necessary by mistake, as long as you have the right mindset and you're trying to learn.

Many healers just spam Medica II when the party is completely healthy as a "just incase an aoe happens". 90% of the time the aoe doesn't happen and even if it does, your remaining few ticks of the HoT won't heal it. That's a dps loss. It did nothing and you could have used Glare or Holy which would be useful. If you want to be a good player you should be aiming to trim and cut down wasted actions and fill that time with useful abilities instead. That's basic.

The moment someone says that using a GCD is a dps loss, they are saying don't use it.

They're saying try not to use it if it does literally nothing. What's unreasonable about this?