Healers need an overhaul

[Sebazy]

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The thing is, you're making these huge sweeping statements but the whole thing completely falls apart at the feet of a simple question.

What am I supposed keep myself busy with in something like a fairly smooth Aglaia run?

We used to have a powerful set of debuff tools = all gone.

We used to have to hardcast our mitigation on the GCD = all gone.

oGCD twitch healing was a highly limited and valuable resource = all gone.

We used to have to watch our agro closely = all gone.

Remember when bosses frequently had agro resets or dangerous adds with clean agro tables? = all gone.

Remember when we had to watch our MP closely? = all gone.

Remember when we had to keep track of multiple dots on different timers? = all gone.

Remember when bosses had often had tank busters on fast cooldowns that didn't have a 5 second cast bar cue? = all gone.

I was the champ of 'Sylphies' back in the likes of Gordias, Midas and Creator.

I want to be healing, I want to be buffing, I want to be debuffing, I want to be the support superstar but the game just doesn't offer any room to do that anymore. Instead I'm another 'greedy green dps' because that's the only way in which I can help improve my party now. Sure, Savage gives me a little more room to play it safe and I'm fortunate enough to have been able to land particularly chad co healers over the years, but in casual content even that doesn't work. There's just not enough to heal and nothing else to do beyond that and spamming Glare.

If I actually wanted that I'd go play Cookie Clicker.