AST (and DRG) had their improvements pushed to 7.0 PLD are getting theirs in 6.3

[Renathras]

To be honest? I think one of the issues is how clunky healing actually is. In Effect, your heal spells would be your oh shit button if shit goes wrong and run out of other ressources, but healing casts are fairly slow in this game. There is also the issue that the entire Makro System is broken and mouse over healing is pretty clunky when seriously, mouse over healing should be the standart for MMOs right now. Outside of maybe very new beginners who haven't run into addons yet, you will not see people lovering themselves to tab target healing in WoW, because its just not an effective method of targeting very specific, changing targets. The way FF14 healing in general has evolved to work, use your cds first and your casts for oh shit moments, is also counter intuitive and something not teached to players by the game,

I honestly agree with everything here.

Cast time healing spells are, at this point, almost an afterthought, and not great at dealing with emergency situations, which are the situations you in theory are using them for. They work okay in scripted/expected situations, but you use oGCDs for those. I also agree that mouseover is nice for K&M players. I play with a controller, so...but I like FFXIV's targeting system with controllers, honestly. It's only awkward when trying to target someone not in a party with you.

To all of you, if you see a healer in a dungeon who fully dedicates to healing and never ever dpsing, do you think "Oh, they're is so focussed on healing and supporting us, such a great person" or do you end up being annoyed because you know this will just drag the run?

If I'm not healing, I'm tanking. And when I que for 4 mans, I don't do it if I am short on time. A run taking 5 mins longer doesn't bother me. If a healer is focused on healing (especially in lover level stuff), I'm perfectly fine with it. It means I won't die and can pull as much as I want. If they're only casting heals AND I'm dying anyway (like just targeting themselves and casting cure and letting everyone die), I suppose I might have an issue with that, but I've never seen it. If a healer is just healing, I'm fine with it.

EDIT: So to be clear with the answer - yes, I do think "They're so focused on healing and supporting us, they're a great/nice person". Though I also tend to think most people are nice unless given reason to think otherwise as my default setting. My assumption is that they're nice and probably nervous and maybe new, and I want to encourage them. So I'll usually also say something encouraging and give them a comm at the end. Especially if it seems they're relatively new. Everyone was new once, and the game doesn't really teach you that healers should be DPSers anyway.