Should healers be designed like tanks?

[ThorneDynasty]

What's more the healing kit bloat is definitely more on the party-wide heal side when A) the only time the game actually demands you go all out is spot-healing the tank during huge pulls B) the only even slightly realistic way to amp up the healing requirement in the future is to greatly increase the auto-attack damage to the tanks.

The lack of any design cohesion in the healing kit is just baffling. The only time you need most of your buttons is when you have to salvage total trainwrecks without missing a single DPS GCD. But those are also the exact situations where it's 100% acceptable for the healer to drop their DPS and just start GCD healing the party. Why is it designed so that you are smashing 11111111 no matter the situation?

[GoatOfWar]

What's more the healing kit bloat is definitely more on the party-wide heal side when A) the only time the game actually demands you go all out is spot-healing the tank during huge pulls B) the only even slightly realistic way to amp up the healing requirement in the future is to greatly increase the auto-attack damage to the tanks.

The lack of any design cohesion in the healing kit is just baffling. The only time you need most of your buttons is when you have to salvage total trainwrecks without missing a single DPS GCD. But those are also the exact situations where it's 100% acceptable for the healer to drop their DPS and just start GCD healing the party. Why is it designed so that you are smashing 11111111 no matter the situation?

You only really have to spot heal tanks that don't use the appropriate cd's during big pulls. And/Or when they're undergeared. As Sage i can easily keep most tanks up without ever interrupting my 1 button damage rotation.

[ThorneDynasty]

You only really have to spot heal tanks that don't use the appropriate cd's during big pulls. And/Or when they're undergeared. As Sage i can easily keep most tanks up without ever interrupting my 1 button damage rotation.

Well I didn't say GCD heal, I assume you are using all your single-target cooldowns during big pulls.