Quote Originally Posted by flowerfairy View Post
White Mage needs a cooler damage rotation, you're telling me they fought against Black Mages in the War of the Magi spamming Glare and Dia?!

People always want the identity of WHM to be burst GCD healing but why not just a full GCD identity in general? Give them something similar to BLM (Stone = Fire, Water = Blizzard, Aero = Thunder) but without any timers to manage. That way they can pick up on their rotation when they're done healing or raising. They have an abnormal amount of healing abilities that they never need because lilies cover almost everything that happens. I think some of these can be replaced with damage abilities so it isn't just glareglareglare.
The moment you add any sort of multi-button DPS rotation to a GCD-based healer like WHM, someone's going to point out that those GCD heals are a DPS loss (à la the old lilies) or find a way to turn GCDs spent over-healing into a DPS gain (because of how damage is "refunded"). It's a balancing act the current WHM avoids because of Glare-Glare-Glare-….

The story could play out differently if healers received DPS credit for healing and mitigating [1] [2], but that's non-trivial to work out.