Quote Originally Posted by Rilifane View Post
Holy Priest has
- spammable filler spell (equivalent to Glare/ Broil/ Malefic/ Dosis)
- dot (equivalent to Dia/ Biolysis/ Combust/ EDosis) but only about half the duration
- Holy Fire on 10s cooldown
These 3 already provide a more engaging dps rotation than any healer here has because of the shorter duration of the dot and the short cooldown of Holy Fire.
- Shadow Word: Death on 30s cooldown
- Holy Word: Chastise on 60s cooldown with a cooldown reduction through Smite casts
While the latter isn't used on cooldown in raids, it definitely has a more engaging dps rotation than FFXIV healers.
The talent skills also deal damage although they're generally used or even kept on cooldown for their healing.

You can say what you want about WoW but healer dps rotations are in a much better state than in FFXIV in addition to healing being generally more intense and requiring decision making over planning. There is a reason for the many healer threads with some of them reaching 100+ pages. It IS an issue and it is something that WoW still does better. From leveling dungeons to endgame raids.
My point isn’t that ffxiv is better than WoWs. It’s that the rotations aren’t any better or more engaging. It doesn’t matter if WoWs holy priest has a swp, smite, w/e if you are still spamming flash heal the whole time. It’s a problem with mmo healers in general. The difference in WoW is dps can’t screw up like dps can in this game and still survive. The WoW healing kits can only do so much. Ffxiv doesn’t have as big of an issue with this. Doom mechanics in this game didn’t even matter because you can just Rez people over and over. In WoW you get one battle Rez.