Quote Originally Posted by Knetik View Post
I've been a healer main in EVERY mmo I've played for 20ish years now and I have never been able to heal in FFXIV. It's like they are appealing to people who DON'T LIKE to heal. I don't want to dps the whole fight while weaving heals. In fact, it should be the opposite.

Let the HEALER role focus and prioritize HEALING!

I was going to start out by saying that it is designed to appeal to people who like to heal and DPS- and the game was *appealing* a few years ago (speaking as HW scholar main).

i can say that i also have been playing MMOs for at least that long and this * healers just stand and heal* is nonsense- a number of games gave healers options to both DPS and heal. Sure, in some situations, a healer would be only healing, but that could represent only a fraction of game content.

So no thanks, this approach is fine, i don't see why someone can't or wouldn't want to be able to DPS while weaving in heals.

I imagine you're asking for perhaps something like random incoming damage or some other types of mechanics? Random mechanics aren't part of this game (though that could change), maybe the addition of more utility skills?