How to easily have healers dps engaged ( yet another thread)

[T-Owl]

I'll gladly sacrifice those oGCD heals for a better dps toolkit. Healing requirements will never be demanding so long as every instance of damage is predictable.

The issue is that even with better dps toolkits, removing healing ogcds, without replacing them with offensive ones, would just end up slowing the role further down.

Yeah, but isn't that ALREADY an improvement?

Healing would be more engaging if you were actually pressing more buttons, and that would be pressing more buttons.

Further, it would make things like efficiency and MP management actually important concepts. As it is, you blow oGCDs, everything is healed, you then spam Glare and keep Lucid on CD. There's no thought or nuance there.

Actively choosing between Medica or Cure 3, Cure 1 or Cure 2, Regen, or Cure 1/2, and when a situation DOES warrant using one of your more limited oGCD emergency tools already sounds more engaging. And it's not like things would necessarily be massively HARDER, per se (if that's a concern). Anything you heal with Afflatus Solace/Tetragrammaton or Afflatus Rapture can be directly substituted for Cure 2 and Medica 1, respectively, as they have the same potencies. It's not as direct, but a lot of the other healers have similar tool comparisons, like Lustrate/Excog to Physic/Adlo (ish) and so on. If the MP costs are somewhat reduced and healers actually have MP regen tools that are used for when MP is low and not on CD (imagine if Lucid had a weaker base potency but scaled higher the lower your MP was when you used it, rewarding waiting to use it until lower MP values instead of just keeping it rolling), then there'd still be no problems.

The fact is, healers press far more than 1/2 buttons NOW. Just the community has decided if they aren't GCDs, they don't count. So if healing was shifted to GCDs and oGCD heals were emergency/panic buttons (as they arguably should be), that would already fix the complaints...

...or reveal them as (some people) complaining because they want to DPS instead of heal and don't REALLY want to have to press more buttons if it means more healing buttons...

No. Every healer who even touches cure 1 would even under this system be subpar and it would basically only remove the single remaining challenge of healers, to map their ogcds correctly to keep their dps rolling, without adding anything else as long as it doesn't come with proper dps rotations. Not to forget that gcd heals in this game are even more boring than the single glare spam. That one at least looks pretty.

And to be hoenst, this hatred towards optimization focussed healers who want to contribute as much as possible to the party sounds like envy towards people who are just better at playing this game and who you know are contributing more towards the party and are more popular with randoms and statics alike than "I just want to heal and spread love and peace uWu" healers.