The Healer Double Standard

[Absurdity]

If the goal is to give healers something interesting to heal through, that sounds like a plus to me, not a minus. (I'm assuming that with unpredictable fights, mechanics are tweaked such that the fight doesn't come down to pure luck.)

Avoidable damage that everyone simply avoids as a matter of course isn't interesting. Scripted, unavoidable damage isn't interesting. That leaves unscripted, unavoidable damage — which, I don't know, is that interesting to heal through or just busy work?

I'm not really disagreeing there, it is just not feasible to implement with the way the game currently works without making it either impossible to deal with or way too easy. Neither of which is good in a savage fight.

If you make the avoidable damage oneshot people and then make the mechanics unpredictable, with the wonky snapshotting that XIV has, it will entirely depend on your luck and end up frustrating.
If you make the mechanic not oneshot people or make the cast so long that you can resolve it, with both the additional time needed to figure out what mechanic the boss is doing and the wonky snapshotting, then it will be way too easy.


This game currently just can't really do mechanics that require split second reactions.