Healers need an overhaul

[Payotz]

That's the problem, that type of game play has never existed for a healer ever since the games inception unless NO one is ever taking damage or getting hit which from what I've seen is never the case.

If you want to top the people off after taking like 500 damage then you're free to do so. That's totally fine regardless if you have extra dps buttons or not.

Your ideas are basically, "Let their just be DPSers and the tank, and one of the DPSer can occasionally heal the group.

Yeah, but at least they're actually doing something when they're NOT healing the group.
Downtime is dps. If you don't wanna do something about downtime in a dungeon, then don't do it.

Don't stop people from actually making that downtime efficiently. You can still /mdance in the middle of healing the tank every 5 seconds if you want, I don't care.
Like you can have Rosa in FF4 be on "Defend" all the time if she isn't healing. Whether or not she has offensive spells or an "Attack" option doesn't change the fact that "no Rosa, you're only going to Defend."

But give the healers that actually want to contribute to making the encounter go down faster, actually room to do so.

Give Rosa offensive spells. You're never gonna press it anyway, so give other people the option to do so. It won't change your playstyle.

[elliexer]

Yeah, but at least they're actually doing something when they're NOT healing the group.
Downtime is dps. If you don't wanna do something about downtime in a dungeon, then don't do it.

or idk.. buffs/debuffs during downtime.. just a thought of what support should be instead of the lazy way of making them dps

[Payotz]

or idk.. buffs/debuffs during downtime.. just a thought of what support should be instead of the lazy way of making them dps

Buffs and debuffs are things you press once every minute or two minutes.
Tanks don't spam reprisal. Scholar doesn't spam Chain Strategem.
Bard doesn't spam Battle Voice.

Sure healers can get extra buffs or debuff buttons, but we all know it's going to be a "press once every minute, two minutes, 3 minute" buttons, like every damn debuff and buff in the game.

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