Quote Originally Posted by Lilapop View Post
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Because that's how the game is designed. Kill X before it kills you. No amount of superfluous support skills are going to miraculously extend the time you have to beat a boss.

Every Healer quest involves fighting in some way shape or form and while they have mechanics for healers (as laughably easy as they've become) you also can't sit there spamming Cure 1 and successfully complete those quests. Same for any quest really. Solo instants as a healer are an absolute slog because the damage you take is so low you never need to heal but they take forever because you only have 1 button to spam the entire time. Even Trust NPCs spend the majority of the time spamming their DPS spells instead of sitting there waiting to heal.

Nothing in this game supports a "Healers should Heal" mentality. I'm not throwing Cure to beat Lahabrea, Thordan, Nidhogg, Zenos, or Emet. I can't shield my way thru their fights and hope they get bored of attacking me. I have to fight back but all I have is some rocks and a gentle breeze to do so.

FFXIV was the 1st MMO I ever played and the experience when I first started vs the experience now is literally night and day. I was never bored of my Healers back in ARR when I was managing 2 DoTs, going in and out of Cleric Stance to do damage, shielding and healing allies with Stoneskin and the rest of my standard GCD healing skills. HW gave me some more oGCDs that were appreciated but they also gave me Aero 3 so I still could fight with. It wasn't until SB when things started going backwards with them removing more of my toolkit and giving me too many oGCDs while outsourcing my old responsibilities to Tanks/DPS instead that things started becoming a problem. Then we get to ShB and Healers have become an absolute joke of themselves. Fairies are glamours, Cards do the same thing, attack options we used to have were replaced with even more unnecessary healing skills and EW just doubled down on that philosophy. Imagine starting a new job that you loved because it was challenging and engaging with plenty of opportunities for advancement but as the years went on, your job responsibilities kept getting outsourced over seas until you're just there to cover some minor paperwork that you could do in your sleep and there's no longer any opportunity for growth. The next step is just layoffs as your position gets shut down entirely and your looking for a new job.

That's where healers are right now. We've asked for our responsibilities back and have been ignored. We're told to shut up by the new people that like the easy workload and think any extra workload would be too hard, completely unaware of how the job was in the past. Giving 1 or 2 extra responsibilities isn't the end of the world and I'm tired of everyone and there mother saying it would be. It worked fine before and could work fine now.