Healers need an overhaul

[Rilifane]

This is so me, too. At least first few couple of months trying to polish my healing gameplay. Eventually I learned the beauty of that quippy remark: "But did you die though?". People can dance in disco panicking but if they aren't dying, I know that I'm healing enough. For the most part, health bars are MY resource, after all.

I can relate.
Did the same for some time, just pressing buttons so the tank feels like I'm actually here for a reason and doing my job but the reality was that I wasn't needed in the slightest. I eventually went with the "But did you die?" too. Every single tank, not just WAR, barely needs anything from me. If the dps is good, I can get away with just spamming Holy, dumping all Lilies between pulls for Misery and not using any oGCD heal at all. If it's average, I'll drop a Lilybell or Bene if the tank dropped and that's it. It needs bad dps and bad mitigation for me to even consider using oGCDs and Solace mid-pull. Same on all other healers.

I instead started to eat damage and heal myself, like keeping good dot uptime on bosses like all Alzadaal bosses and last Troia boss. The minigame of "How much can I eat without dying?" is surprisingly fun to play.

And if anyone comes around the corner with "just do savage if you want something to heal": soo... healers are only supposed to have a bit to heal in savage and for all other content it's entirely fine if the nuke casts vastly outnumber all other casts combined, including all oGCDs and other dps casts like dot, ED, Assize etc?
I could healbot my way through the current tier and I'll guarantee that even with using a GCD or two for every single aoe and buster, my nuke would still make up for well over 50% of my total casts because I already rotate every tool (even the pointless fluff tools) out of sheer boredom unless I'm playing the "Can the non-WAR outheal me? c:" minigame.
By the way, they can and we're still never in any danger whatsoever.

[Mutemutt]

And if anyone comes around the corner with "just do savage if you want something to heal": soo... healers are only supposed to have a bit to heal in savage and for all other content it's entirely fine if the nuke casts vastly outnumber all other casts combined, including all oGCDs and other dps casts like dot, ED, Assize etc?

Honestly, yeah. I feel like the healing is savage is a pretty good level and I've definitely seen players struggle with it. Hell, I've seen people have trouble healing through the latest extreme trial when it first arrived. I'd definitely like to see more content that needs more healing on a personal level, but bulk of the content just isn't meant to be challenging at all.

Of course, my favorite dps also spends like over 40% of its casts on the filler spell lol.