It is not possible to play without doing dps as healer? every day i find someone...

[Valmaxian]

A shame since Living Dead is basically a DRK's benediction in AOE pulls now. I saw DRKs pop it and decided to stop healing entirely and let them heal themselves.

Felt amazing.

This right here. Tanks have very powerful self healing tools. So the game wants us to heal less! If you treat the healer rotation as a DPS rotation while weaving heals you'll be (still bored but) happier than casting a bunch of slow GCD heals that overheal and the mobs go down sooooo muuuuuch sloweeeeeer....

[vetch]

This right here. Tanks have very powerful self healing tools. So the game wants us to heal less! If you treat the healer rotation as a DPS rotation while weaving heals you'll be (still bored but) happier than casting a bunch of slow GCD heals that overheal and the mobs go down sooooo muuuuuch sloweeeeeer....

Until you get to the bosses, who are HP sacks designed to last for ages while doing less damage than the trash.

Or if you actually like healing and pulling people back from the very real danger of death. Then you won't be happier.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

This right here. Tanks have very powerful self healing tools. So the game wants us to heal less! If you treat the healer rotation as a DPS rotation while weaving heals you'll be (still bored but) happier than casting a bunch of slow GCD heals that overheal and the mobs go down sooooo muuuuuch sloweeeeeer....

Tbh the remedy would be to cut down / merge certain heals on various healers to free up space and actually give Healers a tank-esque amount of damage buttons for an actual playstyle / rotation to form. I mean Sage is doing a good job with that, making Eukrasia modify your single target and AOE heal spell.

You know, like how 4.5 Scholar did.

[ThorneDynasty]

Tbh the remedy would be to cut down / merge certain heals on various healers to free up space and actually give Healers a tank-esque amount of damage buttons for an actual playstyle / rotation to form. I mean Sage is doing a good job with that, making Eukrasia modify your single target and AOE heal spell.

You know, like how 4.5 Scholar did.

This will always be met with cries of reduced (oGCD) healing potency, but yes you are absolutely right it'd be trivial to cull down.

A) Oh no, you are reducing my humongous free-healing stockpile that I almost never have a reason to utilize fully? Whatever will I do?

B) "But this one time I played Orbonne and the other healer went AFK and I actually had to heal! Think of the DF parties!". Yeah I guess you will actually have to GCD heal more than once when things go especially wrong. Bad Game Design™, I know, but I guess we'll just have to suck up Medica II being a valid move sometimes.

C) If you absolutely need to keep the healing kit braindead like a bloated corpse anyway, you still can! Make Aquaveil half the cooldown and stack, blam, you've made Benison (even more) redundant. Shorten the generation time for lilies and add a couple more charges, will you even need cooldown buttons?