The Pure/Barrier Split and my inane ramblings about it

[Recon1o6]

I mean you can still make healing somewhat interesting with healing styles: Regen vs Pure vs Barrier for example.

That would be true under the following conditions

1. You actually have things to heal that requires full toolkit use
2. Your healing has an actual skill ceiling

neither condition is currently fulfilled in ff14 for 99% of fights

[ASkellington]

That would be true under the following conditions

1. You actually have things to heal that requires full toolkit use
2. Your healing has an actual skill ceiling

neither condition is currently fulfilled in ff14 for 99% of fights

No. But I want it to. Its kinda ridiculous that wall to wall pulls use more of my kit than boss fights in EX and Savage.

[Anxin]

No. But I want it to. Its kinda ridiculous that wall to wall pulls use more of my kit than boss fights in EX and Savage.

My favorite thing to heal in this game is the wall-to-wall pulls. I have far more fun with these than the boss fights. Can we have dungeons without bosses? Just a giant hallway without any gates and with randomized hordes of mobs so we can see how many we can pull at once? Make the damage scalable to ilevel so the hallway never becomes outgeared! We only need one dungeon like this. I would heal nothing else .

[Sebazy]

My favorite thing to heal in this game is the wall-to-wall pulls. I have far more fun with these than the boss fights. Can we have dungeons without bosses? Just a giant hallway without any gates and with randomized hordes of mobs so we can see how many we can pull at once? Make the damage scalable to ilevel so the hallway never becomes outgeared! We only need one dungeon like this. I would heal nothing else .

Even better, give us something like Aurum Vale or Brayflox (Specifically the room between the 1st and 2nd bosses). Dangerous wandering adds, no gates. Make us have to actually communicate and judge what we can get away with pulling again. Maybe even actually dust off the CC abilities for once!

[ForsakenRoe]

Maybe even actually dust off the CC abilities for once!

Careful, that'd require the healer to target the enemies to apply the CC, and from there it's one small step away from 'oh and it does damage' like old Stone 1 or Stella, and from THERE it's only one more small step away from 'well actually healers can do damage too', we wouldn't want our poor precious healer players to feel too stressed with responsibilities beyond 'heal this raidwide that happens once per minute' now would we

Sarcasm aside, this game really just is not built with CC in mind, and trying to force it now would just cause the same issue that befell Cataclysm Heroics: A playerbase completely un-used to the idea of needing CC skills, suddenly told they MUST CC things or they wipe, and so rather than learn and adapt, they just complained it was too hard.