Quote Originally Posted by Fendred View Post
The thing is, while it is pretty normal to be spamming glare to the point of actually wearing down your mana pool from it in normal content, it is a totally different story in savage content. Astrologian's opener shows what would happen if healers had DPS abilities: The healer strains to adjust to incoming raid-wides by comparison to sage, whm and scholar. Normal mode content doesn't require the full use of the healer's toolkit, whereas savage content does.
That is not true at all, even in Savage and ultimates the glare spam is the predominant activity every healer does, what you mention are just burst windows that happens in very key moments of the fight and even during those a good healer with teamwork can heal, in fact let me show you a not optimized p8sp2 Ast run:


This fight has segments where no one can hit the boss and despite that fall malefic (ast's glare) is still over 40% of the total actions it does and around 70% of the total GCD count, there is no excuse to not add more dps actions to healers and Ast's proves it as well as any other healer or the pre Shb healer iterations where healers had said dps actions and they were capable of healing fine