Quote Originally Posted by Mithron View Post
I believe currently this is the most pressing issue in the entire game that needs to be addressed above everything else. That is my feedback.
If you want to DPS with a more complex DPS rotation....play a DPS. The issue isn't healer DPS rotations not being complex enough, the issue is too many other classes have too much mitigation and the devs have effectively neutered the healer role in the game. No party should be able to clear current content without a healer that is actively needing to rotate through their HEALING rotations. I see far far too many healers out there that can DPS in competition with pure DPS classes but if the party starts loosing health? They panic and can't muster the knowledge or skill or even raid awareness to actually pull the party through bad situations. I can, on any of my healers, have some big mistake happen where people have failed mechanics and have in mass died, and I can stay alive, manage my MP, rez on the run even with a boss chasing me and I can get tanks and other healers and rez capable dps up. I've done it time and time again in roulettes where the experience and skill of the players with me is not a guarantee. I can do it because I don't spend my time worrying about my DPS. as a healer I should NOT be able to compete with pure DPS classes, therefore, keeping my party alive and topped off should be where my skill is. All the bars are green and full? I may have time to make it through a simple short and sweet DPS rotation before I need to be healing, using asuna or shielding people again.

Complexity in rotation for a healing class should only be focused on the healing of that class, not a time filler between your primary purpose in the group. Don't waste MP on DPS when it can be used to keep actual DPS alive, their contribution in damage will always be better than a healers and that's how it should be, so...you contribute the most damage against the boss...by keeping your party alive, clear of debuffs you can dispell and then, keeping yourself alive and your MP healthy so you can clutch heal if there's a mech failure in the group and you have to save the group. Worrying about DPS on a healer is like worrying that elephants can't fly.