Should healers be designed like tanks?

[IllyaPrisma]

But when you have, say, Astrologian, who has a crapload of completely free cooldowns that don't cost DPS, are more than enough to cover any outgoing damage, and don't interrupt your damage in the slightest? Playing a job (*cough* WHM *cough*) that has to use personal DPS-negative heals (especially when said personal DPS is the only thing that your job brings to the table, and even more so before DPS-neutral lilies) while the other healer job gets to fart out lossless heals whenever they want, you start clamoring for something similar.

This seems a bit out of touch. WHM is actually the only healer that can use GCDs (excluding Macro and Pneuma) on healing without it being a DPS loss.

[AnotherPerson]

This seems a bit out of touch. WHM is actually the only healer that can use GCDs (excluding Macro and Pneuma) on healing without it being a DPS loss.

You may want to re-read that in full. They said "even more so before DPS-neutral lilies", which is true. DPS-neutral lilies were only introduced in 6.1. Before 6.1, using lilies was a DPS loss as it took 4 GCDs to give the output of 3 glares.

[IllyaPrisma]

You may want to re-read that in full. They said "even more so before DPS-neutral lilies", which is true. DPS-neutral lilies were only introduced in 6.1. Before 6.1, using lilies was a DPS loss as it took 4 GCDs to give the output of 3 glares.

That’s why I said that it seems out of touch…. They are speaking about WHM as if prior to 6.1. The statement clearly points to WHM as a healer that needs to rely on DPS negative healing. This is no longer the case and WHM brings an abundance of lossless healing now.