Paired Threads: What would it take to make Heaker kits "complex/interesting"?

[Faidid]

1) I agree Rilifane! DPS rotations are laughably lame right now. The very unpopular decision to take them away and over homogenize the healing jobs was a grave mistake. Should the dps be on par with traditional dps jobs? Of course not...but, spamming 1-button is just ridiculous design. Anyone responsible for stripping these jobs down to the state they are in today should be barred from touching healers again.

[RyuDragnier]

1) I agree Rilifane! DPS rotations are laughably lame right now. The very unpopular decision to take them away and over homogenize the healing jobs was a grave mistake. Should the dps be on par with traditional dps jobs? Of course not...but, spamming 1-button is just ridiculous design. Anyone responsible for stripping these jobs down to the state they are in today should be barred from touching healers again.

3-4 DPS buttons would be preferable, with some oGCD modifiers. Such as how SCH was back in SB. Miasma, Bio II, Bane to spread those, Miasma II, Shadow Flare, Energy Drain, and Broil. Didn't need much to make SCH feel really good to DPS as. Hell, just having a 2nd DoT and the capability to spread it with Deployment Tactics (it really needs to work like how it does in PvP) would be a big upgrade in how DPS feels for SCH alone.

All the healers could stand to have a 2nd DoT and a modifier. SCH getting back their ability to spread the DoTs, WHM being able to strengthen their DoTs, AST being able to detonate them for burst damage, and SGE being able to get a damage boost from the DoTs (like NIN's current Trick Attack). Small things that would make DPSing feel a lot better.

[IDontPetLalas]

3-4 DPS buttons would be preferable, with some oGCD modifiers. Such as how SCH was back in SB. Miasma, Bio II, Bane to spread those, Miasma II, Shadow Flare, Energy Drain, and Broil. Didn't need much to make SCH feel really good to DPS as. Hell, just having a 2nd DoT and the capability to spread it with Deployment Tactics (it really needs to work like how it does in PvP) would be a big upgrade in how DPS feels for SCH alone.

All the healers could stand to have a 2nd DoT and a modifier. SCH getting back their ability to spread the DoTs, WHM being able to strengthen their DoTs, AST being able to detonate them for burst damage, and SGE being able to get a damage boost from the DoTs (like NIN's current Trick Attack). Small things that would make DPSing feel a lot better.

I agree with your first sentence, however not necessarily with the part in bold as that's the part that leads to a rather dull experience- a copy/paste of each healer. by all means, let one have a few dots (likely SCH), but why not try to be a bit more creative, if possible for the other three healers? Maybe one could have a new DPS burst skill on longer CD, or another could have a proc skill, etc?