Healers need an overhaul

[WaxSw]

But Sage does have more dps skills, and even if you're still hitting the same button 65% of the time, it feels like there's more depth to it. The experience is what matters, I don't really care about the maths. If you analyse BLM I'm sure you find the top level is just spamming Fire IV 65% of the time right?

Actually not either.

In a raid Sage has: Dosis, Eukrasian Dosis, Phlegma and Toxicon (Dyskrasia is AoE only and Pneuma outside of AoE is used as a heal). Out of those Dosis and Eukrasian dosis are the bulk of the rotation, Toxicon rarely sees more than 3 uses per fight and Phlegma is used every 45s (with the option to delay for movement)

Whm has: Glare, Dia, Assize and Misery. Glare and Dia=Dosis and Eukrasian Dosis, Assize is used as much as Phelgma (both dps gain 45s cds) and Misery is used every min to get damage under raid buffs which is far more often than toxicon.

Their rotation is not that different and there is barely any depth there, doesn't matter if you have cooldowns if you don't get to use them frequently enough and they do not change the way you approach to an encounter.

BLM actually shows why healer's spam is so badly designed:

The difference with Fire 4 are the implications:
-First fire 4 is not spammed nearly as much as healers spam their nuke
-Second fire 4 doesn't refresh the damage buff so they can't spam continuously otherwise they'll lose damage, this creates a distraction as Blm have to manage other things while spamming
-Third fire 4 has huge mp costs, this creates a resource management problem that Blm has to solve in order to maximize the damage distracting further from the spam and gives room for attacks like Despair to exist.
-Fourth Fire 4 has a long cast time which means a Blm is restricted in when they can spam it, creating optimization puzzles around that, cds like swiftcast and triplecast and the procs

Healer on the other hand:
-Spam their nuke much more often
-The nuke doesn't interact with anything in their kit
-The Mp costs it has are so low its negligible, so there are little to no resource management involved
-With the cast time reduction healers have high mobility which leads to further spam and there is very little management involved (dot refresh and then lilies for whm and Phlegma and Toxicon for Sge vs BLM with Procs, triplecast, different casts, xenoglossy/foul, cds related to xenoglossy/foul and procs...)

That's why healers complain about spamming and Blms dont. For a BLM fire 4 spam is a reward for good playstyle, for a healer nuke spam is the baseline of what they do.

Edit: To show the point more look at the cpm Fire 4 has in the following BLM log (is the same fight)


Fire 4 barely reaches 30% of the cpm while in the case of Whm and Sge their nuke was well over 60%