Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Sure, why not? I think you're putting too much emphasis on per GCD damage rather than overall damage per time.

Alternatively, we can let healers give damage buffs to the party from their healing rotation via combos and such. There are ways to help with party damage than direct per GCD attack.
You want to push healing for the sake of healing at all costs.
For what?
So healers actually heal and feel like healers? They won't. It's like dpsing an enemy that is invuln, has a crazy damage reduction or can't drop below 1% - people either randomly press buttons out of sheer boredom and fool around with "lookie lookie I'm a dagger mage NIN hehe" or they build up resources if their class has them or they just stand around doing nothing because they know perfectly well that it doesn't matter what they do.

Your "BLM approach" for healers would be the same as targetable but invuln target for dps.
Making your actions feel impactful matters a great deal. If it didn't you could just tell every single class of every role to press buttons that won't do anything for 10min but charge up a mega nuke that goes after that. I can guarantee you that they won't like it.
And overhealing for the sole purpose of regenerating MP so you can even dps is just as bad, you're forcing people to spend an extended period of time doing somethung useless that isn't contributing at all just so they can do something actually useful for a few GCDs.
The BLM approach works on BLM because UI/ AF are completely different from the healing/ dps phases you suggest.
UI is where the true optimization takes place, it's not a necessary evil of doing nothing useful for 2-3 GCDs. You have the options to and try to make UI itself as impactful as possible while charging up a strong AF phase. UI is not "do useless stuff for big booms afterwards", let alone "do useless stuff that feels bad and doesn't contribute so you are even allowed to contribute for a few GCDs afterwards". UI is not a fixed rotation, you have several options for it and it's perhaps the biggest factor in the BLM's relatively high skill ceiling.

You're desperately trying to make healers use healing buttons even if they wouldn't contribute anything meaningful.
And no, tacking on a "but it regs MP for deeps!" mechanic is not meaningful.
There is a reason why any WHM worth their salt hated blowing a useless Lily for weaving/ movement or many ASTs hating Astrodyne being just a tacked-on, poorly designed last minute justification for seals to keep existing.