Healers need an overhaul

[Raven2014]

Such a gaslighting argument. "You don't want to play healer if you want interesting filler rotations, you're just a green DPS. You're not a real healer."

If it walks like a duck, look like a duck and whack like a duck, then it is a duck. You call it gaslighting, I call a spade a spade.

But changing up their raid design now will only affect future boss fights... a healer that was able to bring both healing and DPS?

Did you miss the part I said the fault inherently lie with the developers that pushed and ingrain this style of play to the community for YEARS? You also putting a bunch of random crap that I never said, so who gaslighting who?

Tell me, what is a traditional healer?

Pardon me for playing MMO way before FF14 itself exist. I remember the days when playing as healer I:

- Have to spam heal to keep the raid alive.
- Have to make judgement call between fast or slow heal or else someone end up death.
- Have to manage my MP or I may OOM before the fight is over.
- Have to prep party in advance for incoming damage.
- Have to precast heal in advance to get enough raw out out in time.

While FF14 itself may never have every item on the list, at some point it had a few, and like I said over the year they had tripped away the healing identity to replace with the DPS's one, and here we are.

I also remember the day healers compete each other on healing amount vs overhealing and that's how you rank good vs bad healers. I am sorry you find the term "Green DPS offensive", but in a game where:

- The main metric used to judge healer are their DPS,
- High healing number actually frown upon on
- The healer's supposed main 2nd stat (Piety) is a waste stats no one want,
- Healers are encouraged to stack Direct Hit which has nothing to do with heal

... Healers in FF14 is a GREEN DPS. If saying that is considered gaslighting the community then so be it, I am gaslighting you, because the alternative would require me to lie ... and I hate simply hate lying.