Healers need an overhaul

[Rilifane]

I'll just break down the Holy Priest dps rotation for our friends on here. First thing to note is that Holy Priest is the equivalent of White Mage, a pure healer with fat heals and not much complicated going on. The healbot healer. And yet they have...

Shadow Word: Pain - Generic Single Target Dot (think Dia)
Holy Fire - Single Target Hit + Dot, Dot can be stacked
Holy Word: Chastise - Single Target Hit with a cooldown, also CCs when applicable.
Smite - Generic Single Target filler spell, but each cast reduces the cooldown on Chastise, and has a chance to reset the cooldown on Holy Fire
Shadow Word: Death - Big damage only below 20% enemy health, but hurts you too if it doesn't kill, so you need to be mindful of your own health.
Divine Star - Damage and Healing in a line, think Assize, considerable cooldown.

Just to clarify it further:

Shadow Word: Pain - 16s dot.
Holy Fire - 10s cooldown
Divine Star - 15s cooldown (talent, can also chose Halo which also deals damage on a 40s cooldown)
Shadow Word: Death - 20s cooldown with the lv 46 trait
Holy Word: Chastise - a 60s cooldown
So we have 5 different cooldowns/ durations in addition to the spammable nuke and more frequent damage and higher reliance on GCD healing, meaning even the theoretically aligned cooldowns like Divine Star and Holy Word: Chastise will ineviteably misalign because healing had priority; especially with Star often held for a few more seconds for the healing or SW: D often held for a few seconds until it's safe again.
It's a priority system with 6 buttons and surprisingly, the world hasn't gone up in flames from healers dpsing in a game that needs more healing than FFXIV does.
And you get all that way before max level.

Yes, you occasionally forgot a skill and let it sit for too long. Learning Priests often just uswed SW: P and spammed Smite and gradually incorporated more skills - as everyone does when learning. Start with the basics that give the most bang for your bucks and work your way up.
It's also worth mentioning that the GCD is shorter so for someone that really wants to nail both healing and dpsing at a high level it's pretty busy.

I'd better not even start with things like Rift's Chloromancer or I'll start weeping.